Google Kubernetes Engine

GCP Kubernetes Engine Overview

While studying for the Google Cloud Platform, Associate Cloud Engineer Certification, I was getting a little lost with some of the Kubernetes Engine terms. Particularly those that seemed to have different names for the same things, though differences when it came to menus in the Google Cloud Console e.g. Workload | Deployment (OK, so they could be different from a Runtime vs Action point of view, but I am looking at this holistically.

While there are countless diagrams online, they weren’t quite what I was looking for to visualize a number of concepts important to me at this point in time. So I put the following together which helps me. Perhaps it might help you too.

I would be more than happy to be corrected on anything I may have wrong. Please!

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