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NodeJS API To Replicated App On Kubernetes With Google Cloud

Building a NodeJS API on Google Kubernetes Engine: Create a Node app, containerize it with Docker, push to registry, deploy on K8s cluster, expose as service & scale easily.

The goal is simply to write a NodeJS API and turn it into a replicated application running on Kubernetes, which is running on Google Kubernetes Engine.

  
  
  Important Note: This article uses Google Cloud Console, gcloud shell, Compute Engine, Google Container Registry, Google Kubernetes Engine.

  
  
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  What is Kubernetes

Kubernetes, also abbreviated as K8s (with '8' representing the number of letters between 'K' and 's'), is an open-source project originally developed by Google. It is now managed by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Kubernetes p...