Managing Deployments Using Kubernetes Engine

Introduction to deployments

Heterogeneous deployments typically involve connecting two or more distinct infrastructure environments or regions to address a specific technical or operational need.

Heterogeneous deployments are called “hybrid”, “multi-cloud”, or “public-private”, depending upon the specifics of the deployment.

Various business and technical challenges can arise in deployments that are limited to a single environment or region:

• Maxed out resources
• Limited geographic reach
• Limited availability
• Vendor lock-in
• Inflexible resources

Heterogeneous deployments can help address these challenges, but they must be architected using programmatic and deterministic processes and procedures. One-off or ad-hoc deployment procedures can cause deployments or processes to be brittle and intolerant of failures. Ad-hoc processes can lose data or drop traffic. Good deployment processes must be repeatable and use proven approaches for managing provisioning, configuration, and maintenance.

Three common scenarios for heterogeneous deployment are multi-cloud deployments, fronting on-premises data, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

Dev Ops practices will regularly make use of multiple deployments to manage application deployment scenarios such…