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For any real production system you have to use terraform and their ilk to manage clusters, as you need to be spinning up and down dev/qa/prod clusters. I don't
by blazespin 7y ago
For any real production system you have to use terraform and their ilk to manage clusters, as you need to be spinning up and down dev/qa/prod clusters.
I don't know GCP though. In the past I've seen kube cluster archs which are very very fragile as they spin up. If that's the case with GCP I can see why you wouldn't do the above and rather hand hold their creation.
- pm90 7y agoGKE makes it incredibly easy to spin up + tear down GKE clusters. UI/CLI/Terraform etc, all just work for 99% of the cases.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI would love if this happened in the real world, but for every well-architected automated cluster management setup I’ve seen using Terraform, Ansible, or even shell scripts and bubble gum, there are five that were hand-configured in the console and poorly (or not at all) documented, and might not be able to re-create without a substantial multi-day effort.