Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides a managed environment for deploying, managing, and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. The GKE environment consists of multiple machines (specifically, Compute Engine instances) grouped together to form a cluster.

In this lab, we will download a sample app from GitHub and learn how to deploy applications to Kubernetes Engine.

Download a sample app from GitHub

Download a sample application from GitHub and preview it in Cloud Shell.

1. In the Cloud Console, click Activate Cloud Shell.

2. If prompted, click Continue.

3. To create a new folder, run the following command:

mkdir gcp-course

4. Change to the folder you just created:

cd gcp-course

5. Clone a simple Python Flask app from GitHub:

_git clone _https://GitHub.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/training-data-analyst.gitcontent_copy

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