Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is becoming popular in the public cloud industry that's provided by Google. GCP has concepts that are similar to those provided by AWS, such as VPC, Compute Engine, Persistent Disk, Load Balancing, and several managed services. In this chapter, you'll learn about GCP and how to set up Kubernetes on GCP through the following topics:

• Understanding GCP
• Using and understanding GCP components
• Using Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), the hosted Kubernetes service