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GCP ACE · Question 23 · Domain 3.2: Deploying and implementing GKE resources
You have a GKE cluster running and you have written a Kubernetes Deployment manifest file named app-deployment.yaml. You want to deploy this application to your cluster.
Which command should you run?
You have a GKE cluster running and you have written a Kubernetes Deployment manifest file named app-deployment.yaml. You want to deploy this application to your cluster.
Which command should you run?
Answer options:
A.
gcloud container deployments create app-deployment.yaml
B.
kubectl apply -f app-deployment.yaml
C.
kubectl run app-deployment.yaml
D.
gcloud run deploy --file app-deployment.yaml
How to approach this question
Identify the standard Kubernetes command for applying declarative manifests.
Full Answer
B.kubectl apply -f app-deployment.yaml✓ Correct
kubectl apply -f app-deployment.yaml
While `gcloud` is used to manage GCP infrastructure (like creating the GKE cluster), `kubectl` is the Kubernetes command-line tool used to deploy and manage applications inside the cluster. `kubectl apply -f [FILENAME]` is the standard declarative command to deploy resources defined in a YAML manifest.
Common mistakes
Trying to use `gcloud` to deploy Kubernetes pods/deployments.
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