IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service delivers powerful tools by combining Docker containers, the Kubernetes technology, an intuitive user experience, and built-in security and isolation to automate the deployment, operation, scaling, and monitoring of containerized apps in a cluster of compute hosts.

For this tutorial, a Kubernetes cluster has been pre-created and assigned to you. This cluster is a paid standard cluster with one worker node and come with the following characteristics:

• In-cluster networking
• Public network app access by a NodePort service to a non-stable IP address
• User access management
• IBM Cloud service access from the cluster and apps
• Disk space on worker node for non-persistent storage
• Ability to create cluster in every Kubernetes Service region
• Multizone clusters to increase app high availability
• Replicated masters for higher availability (Kubernetes 1.10 or later)
• Scalable number of worker nodes to increase capacity
• Persistent NFS file-based storage with volumes
• Public or private network app access by a load balancer service to a stable IP address
• Public network app access by an Ingress service to a stable IP address and customizable URL
• Portable public IP addresses
• Logging and monitoring
• Option to provision your worker nodes on physical (bare metal) servers
• Option to provision bare metal workers with Trusted Compute