GKE management interfaces

GKE offers multiple management interfaces we can interact with. Google Cloud offers full capabilities in each of the interfaces. Upcoming parts of the chapter will guide us through both the CLI and the Cloud console experience of cluster management and configuration.

Cloud Console

We already know Cloud Console from the previous chapter, where we worked heavily with Compute Engine and we worked with instances. The following screenshot shows two GKE clusters running in our project. The console looks familiar to GCE:

Figure 5.8 – GKE in Cloud Console

We will show you how to deploy GKE Standard and GKE Autopilot in the upcoming section.

Cloud Shell

Cloud Shell and its gcloud set of commands can be used to manage GKE together with Cloud Console. The gcloud command can be handy when you want to script and automate GKE-related tasks.

Cloud SDK

Cloud SDK provides Cloud Client Libraries, allowing you to interact with...