Deploy Nginx on Kubernetes GCP – Linux Guru

Image source nginx

I have created this tutorial for the beginners who are just started working on kubernetes, and wants to know how to deploy apps on Kubernetes, So i will install simple Nginx app on Kubernetes. i am using gcp for Kubernetes, So first we will have to create Kubernetes cluster over GCP account. So let’s create Kubernetes cluster with minimum node requirement. we will use f1-micro instance for the Nginx deployment, You can also deploy multiple app on cluster. if you are using google cloud then you have already setup gcloud on your local machine so that we can manage cluster from local machine using gcloud.


Cluster Specifications :
Cluster name : my-cluster
Zone : europe-west1-b, europe-west1-c, europe-west1-d 
Disk : 10 GB 
Node pool : 1 (it will create 3 instance in each zone).
Machine Type : f1-micro


Create cluster command : 
$ gcloud container clusters create my-cluster –zone europe-west1-b –additional-zones europe-west1-c,europe-west1-d –disk-type=pd-ssd –disk-size=10GB –num-nodes=1 –machine-type=f1-micro


Connect the cluster using below command : 
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials my-cluster –zone europe-west1-b –project verdant-sprite-228006

Now we have ready Kubernetes cluster to deploy app, We will deploy Nginx app now on the cluster.


Deploy Nginx app using below command.
$ kubectl run my-website –image=nginx –port=80
deployment.apps/my-website created


it will pull the image of nginx from the docker registery and deploy to the cluster.


To check the deployment : 
$ kubectl get deployments

Now we will have to expose the nginx service over load balancer, So that we can able to access it form browse globally.


Deploy Nginx service : 
$ kubectl expose deployment my-website –type=LoadBalancer
service/my-website exposed


Now we have expose the “my-website” deployment service to the load balancer, Now you have to check the service information to get the load balancer ip. 


To check the service : 
$ kubectl get svc

first time it will show external ip to the pending state, it will take few seconds to create loadbalancer endpoint. you can check it after some time again. it will provide you global ip to access your app.


Now check again service status : 
$ kubectl get svc

Now we have an external loadbalancer IP, Using that ip we can access our Nginx app over browser. So let’s check it.