Kubernetes Overview

The Google Cloud Platform offers a hosted Kubernetes-as-a-Service called Google

Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Amazon offers a managed Kubernetes service called Elastic Kubernetes Service

(EKS).

Microsoft Azure offers a hosted Kubernetes-as-a-Service as part of the Azure Container

Service.

If you need a local development experience, or you don’t want to pay for cloud

resources, you can install a simple single-node cluster using minikube.

The Kubernetes Client

The official Kubernetes client is kubectl: a command-line tool for interacting with

the Kubernetes API. kubectl can be used to manage most Kubernetes objects, such as

Pods, ReplicaSets, and Services. kubectl can also be used to explore and verify the

overall health of the cluster.