Traefik on Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine

Requirements

• Google Cloud Account
• gcloud SDK installed
• GCP Project with Billing and Compute Engine Enabled

Steps

Setup CLI

gcloud init
gcloud auth application-default login
export GOOGLE_PROJECT=$(gcloud config get-value project)

Edit Files

As of RBAC Constraints on GKE, it's necessary to edit one file.

permissions.yml

On line 12

subjects:
- apiGroup: rbac.authorization.k8s.io
  kind: User
  name: <yourgcpaccountemail.com>

please enter your valid GCP account email.

Create Cluster

terraform init
terraform apply

Setup Kubectl

gcloud container clusters get-credentials $(terraform output cluster_name) --zone $(terraform output cluster_zone)

Spawn Traefik as Ingress Controller

kubectl apply -f services/traefik

Spawn Demo Services

kubectl apply -f services/whoami
kubectl apply -f services/nginx