Notes at the Google Cloud OnBoard Kubernetes Engine event in Helsinki 2019: Difference between revisions

Notes from Google Cloud OnBoard event on Thu 2019-03-21 at the [https://www.nordicchoicehotels.fi/hotellit/suomi/helsinki/clarion-hotel-helsinki/palvelut/ Clarion Hotel in Helsinki].

'''[[w:Kubernetes|Kubernetes]]''' (commonly stylized as '''k8s''') is an [[w:open-source software|open-source]] [[w:Operating-system-level virtualization|container]] [[w:orchestration (computing)|orchestration]] system for automating [[w:application software|application]] deployment, scaling, and management. It was originally designed by [[w:Google|Google]], and is now maintained by the [[w:Cloud Native Computing Foundation|Cloud Native Computing Foundation]]. It aims to provide a "platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts". It works with a range of container tools, including [[w:Docker (software)|Docker]]. Many [[w:cloud computing|cloud]] services offer a Kubernetes-based platform or infrastructure as a service ([[w:Platform as a service|PaaS]] or [[w:Infrastructure as a service|IaaS]]) on which Kubernetes can be deployed as a platform-providing service. Many vendors also provide their own branded Kubernetes distributions. (Wikipedia) ([https://kubernetes.io/ Official website Kubernetes.io])

'''[[w:Google Cloud Platform|Google Cloud Platform]] (GCP)''', offered by Google, is a suite of [[w:cloud computing|cloud computing]] services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its end-user products, such as [[w:Google Search|Google Search]] and [[w:YouTube|YouTube]]. (Wikipedia) ([https://cloud.google.com/ Offical website Cloud.Google.com] - [https://cloud.google.com/free/ a free tier] will always be available)