In this new tutorial, we will build further upon on our first tutorial — Easily process long-running jobs with JobRunr — and deploy the JobRunr application to a Kubernetes cluster on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform. We then scale it up to 10 instances to have a whopping 869% speed increase compared to only one instance!
This tutorial is a beginners guide on the topic cloud infrastructure management. Feel free to skip to the parts that interest you.
Kubernetes, also known as k8s, is the hot new DevOps tool for deploying high-available applications. Today, there are a lot of providers all supporting Kubernetes including the well known Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).