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Volumes serve as storage units that containers within a Pod can access. Certain volume types rely on ephemeral storage, meaning they do not persist once the Pod is terminated. Examples of such ephemeral storage types include emptyDir, which can be used as temporary storage for applications. Similar to CPU and memory resources, we can manage…

As we mentioned before, GKE is based on Kubernetes itself. We will briefly explain the core Kubernetes components and how they relate to GKE. Because this book is aimed toward helping you ace the Associate Cloud Engineer (ACE) exam, we won’t explain how to build a CI/CD pipeline and deploy it to GKE. If you…

This chapter aims to cover various compute solutions’ implementation. We are going to cover the following main topics: We are very excited to introduce the concept of container orchestration as I’m seeing an everyday increase in traction toward containers. Kubernetes and its native Google Cloud implementation GKE is a very sophisticated and innovative product on…

We need three steps to achieve the same configuration we did using the Cloud console. The first section creates an MIG based on a pre-configured template:gcloud beta compute instance-groups managed create INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME –project=PROJECT_NAME –base-instance-name=INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME –size=MINIMUM_SIZE –template=TEMPLATE_NAME –zones=ZONE_NAME_X,ZONE_NAME_Y,ZONE_NAME_z –target-distribution-shape=EVEN To create a named port, we need to execute the following command:gcloud compute instance-groups managed set-named-ports INSTANCE_GROUP_NAME…

Let’s create an MIG. To do so, we need the following items: In the Cloud console, navigate to Compute Engine and the Instance groups section: Figure 4.68 – The initial configuration section of the MIG In the location section, we can choose single or multiple zones. If a single zone is selected, a target distribution…

Google Cloud allows changes to the networking configuration of instances. Possible permitted modifications are as follows: All those actions must be performed when the instance is powered off, and it cannot be a part of a managed instance group (MIG) or network endpoint group (NEG). Console After stopping the VM instance, we need to edit…

External IP address configuration is an essential piece of instance configuration. If you host a website or application or point it to the external domain name, it is desired to have a configured static IP address. Once the instance is created with an external IP address, it is ephemeral. When your instance runs, it might…

Network-related activities are as important as overall management and storage activities – not only in real life when working with Google Cloud but also for the exam. The following tasks represent Compute Engine networking activities. The upcoming chapter is dedicated to covering VPC, VPN, and Load Balancer networking resources. Configuring an instance with a static…

Custom images are the best solution if you want to reuse the fully preconfigured operating system with custom applications and settings. It is possible to create custom instance images from source disks, images, snapshots, or images stored in Cloud Storage and use these images to create VM instances. Console Let’s create a custom instance image…