Slides for my meetup talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPKXkJeBbus Kubernetes is steadily becoming a go-to platform for application development yet the cognitive entry bar is still quite high even when you go with a well rounded managed platform like GKE. Can we avoid some of the brain cycle toll while still staying within the Kubernetes ecosystem? Let’s try to find out by exploring Google Cloud Run and GKE Autopilot services.

1. When Less is More
Save Brain Cycles with GKE Autopilot and Cloud Run

2. hello!
I am Zaar Hai
Google Developer Expert // Staff Cloud Architect at DoiT
linkedin.com/in/zaar
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3. Kubernetes Anyone?
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4. Kubernetes is about
Uniform App Development
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5. The pre K8s way
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App

6. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy

7. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy
AWS
GCP
...
Provision
Configure
Patch

8. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy
AWS
GCP
...
Provision
Configure
Patch
Keep it
up & running

9. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy
AWS
GCP
...
Provision
Configure
Patch
Keep it
up & running
SCALE

10. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy
AWS
GCP
...
Provision
Configure
Patch
Keep it
up & running
SCALE
Monitor
Troubleshoot

11. The pre K8s way
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App VM
Package
Deploy
AWS
GCP
...
Provision
Configure
Patch
Keep it
up & running
SCALE
Monitor
Troubleshoot
JOB SECURITY

12. Kubernetes
Uniform approach to Dev & Ops framework
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13. The K8s way
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App

14. The K8s way
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App
Docker
Image Container

15. The K8s way
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App
Pod
Docker
Image Container
Keep it
up & running

16. The K8s way
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App
Pod
Docker
Image Container
Service IP / DNS
Pod
Pod
*
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17. The K8s way
✘ Unified way to declare:
➢ How you apps pieces run
➢ How they find to each other
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18. Where does it run?
MSPs to the rescue
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19. GKE Standard
✘ Node pools -> GCE Instance groups
✘ K8s nodes -> GCE VMs
✘ You pay for:
➢ Control plain fee $73/month per cluster
➢ VMs
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20. GKE Standard
✘ Google says majority GKE clusters are underutilized
✘ GKE Node Autoprovisioner helps somewhat
➢ Scale to almost 0
➢ Tricky to configure
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21. h, VMs
Can’t we forget about them?
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22. GKE Autopilot
✘ K8s nodes (VM) are hidden from you
✘ You pay for:
➢ Control plain fee $73/month per cluster
➢ Pod resources requested - $32/CPU, $3.6/gb-ram per month
✘ Great for dynamic workloads
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23. Demo time
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24. GKE Standard vs Autopilot
✘ Pay per VM
✘ K8s skills++
✘ Choice of OS
✘ Security optional
✘ Choice of K8s version
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✘ Pay per Pod
✘ Basic K8s
✘ COS only
✘ Secure by default
✘ 99.9% Pod SLA(!)
✘ Unsupported:
➢ Root access
➢ Many add-ons
➢ Preemptible VMs

25. Cloud Run
Less infrastructure, more applications
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26. The Cloud Run way
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App

27. The Cloud Run way
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App
Docker
Image
Container
*
*
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Container
Cloud Run
HTTP Service Endpoint

28. Cloud Run
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✘ Serverless for containers
✘ You pay for:
➢ Resources used while handling requests
➢ But you have concurrency! - contrary to FaaS
✘ Event driven HTTP (and friends) only
✘ Stateless

29. Cloud Run
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✘ Built on KNative - run on any K8s cluster
✘ Tight GCP Integration
➢ PubSub Push
➢ Cloud Events
➢ Authentication
➢ Log collection and error reporting
✘ Still a container - easy for dev&test

30. Choices
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GKE
Standard
GKE
Autopilot
Cloud
Run
Kubernetes
less More

31. thanks!
Any questions?
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