Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?
I would look at these topics and in this order:<p>1. Containerisation - can you build a hello world web app in any language then Dockerise it.<p>2. Now break it into two containers - one is the original hello world but now it calls an API on a 2nd container that responds with hello world in one of 10 different languages. Just hard code this the point is that it’s now 2 containers for your “app”.<p>3. Create a Docker repository in GCP’s Artefact Registry and upload your images. Now remove them from your local Docker registry and run them again but this time pulling them from your registry on GCP.<p>3. Use Cloudbuild to build them.<p>4. Spin up a local Kubernetes cluster such as Minikube.<p>5. Read docos about K8s deployments and service types. Special attention to ClusterService, NodePort, LoadBalancer.<p>6. Deploy the first version of your hello world. Maybe try to point your YAML to the local registry then the one on GCP you created.<p>7. Create a service to access your app.<p>8. Figure out how to turn in and access (via proxy) the kubernetes dashboard.<p>9. Now deploy the 2nd version of your app. Learn a bit more about K8s networking, pod horizontal scaling, pod resource claims, kill some pods, etc.<p>10. Learn Skaffold.<p>11. Create GKE cluster.<p>12. Deploy same app.<p>13. Learn about K8s Ingress.<p>14. Get familiar with GKEs console.<p>15. Use knowledge of Skaffold to understand and use the brand new Google Cloud Deploy.<p>Edit: autocorrect “fixed” several things