Now that we have an environment to run GKE clusters in we should probably build out a few clusters. Thankfully this post shouldn’t be as wordy as the last, but there is still a bunch of stuff to cover. We’re going to go over some of the features of GKE and value.

To host our GKE clusters, we’ll use several GCP projects. Projects on GCP provide boundaries around access privileges (Identity and Access Management), network constructs like subnets and similar and act as a collection of resources. Our multi-cluster environment is going to need a few projects and some organisation of the base resources in them.

This series is going to cover the work involved and design decisions made to build a multi-cluster, multi-region Google Cloud (GCP) & Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) environment. Once created with Terraform, Spinnaker will be deployed and will manage our Kubernetes workloads from one of the GKE Clusters.

This collection of posts started off as a reason to explore spinnaker but has turned into a set of posts going into how we can structure a multi cluster shared kubernetes platform with different deployments across the clusters.