3. Deploying your first application

This chapter covers

• Running a single-node Kubernetes cluster on your laptop
• Setting up a Kubernetes cluster on Google Kubernetes Engine
• Setting up and using the kubectl command-line tool
• Deploying an application in Kubernetes and making it available across the globe
• Horizontally scaling the application

The goal of this chapter is to show you how to run a local single-node development Kubernetes cluster or set up a proper, managed multi-node cluster in the cloud. Once your cluster is running, you’ll use it to run the container you created in the previous chapter.