In my previous post, I talked about how to deploy a containerised ASP.NET Core app to App Engine (flex) on Google Cloud. App Engine (flex) is an easy way to run containers in production: Just send your container and let Google Cloud figure out how to run it at scale. It comes with some nice default features such as versioning, traffic splitting, dashboards and autoscaling. However, it doesn’t give you much control.
Sometimes, you need to create a cluster of containers and control how each container is deployed and scaled. That’s when Kubernetes come into play. Kubernetes is an open source container management platform that helps you to manage a cluster of containers and Container Engine is Kubernetes managed by Google Cloud.
In this cloud minute, I show how to deploy an ASP.NET Core app to Kubernetes running on Container Engine.
If you want to go through these steps yourself, we also have a codelab for you that you can access here.
Originally published at meteatamel.wordpress.com on September 11, 2017.