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The Github repo containing files discussed or shown in this post can be found here. Assumptions and Requirements Before beginning, I’ll go over some requirements and I’m also going to make some assumptions about you, the reader, and the environment you’re working from. Assumptions I’m going to first assume that you’ve got a base level of knowledge and experience with GKE, Istio, and Kubernetes in general. ⚠ Be aware of the potential cost involved in creating the resources mentioned herein. Cloud resources are not free. These were not created on any sort of free tier. I'm also going to assume you know how to create your own GKE clusters in your preferred manner. Requirements You’ll need two GKE clusters for this, preferably in different regions. In this blog post, I’m using clusters in us-east1 and us-central1. These clusters must be running Kubernetes 1.21+ and will need the below-listed items completed before proceeding. ...

This is Part 1 of a two part series. As part of the SRE team at Harness, the goal is to help increase stability and reliability for our org while keeping in mind the need to scale as we grow. Here I’ll explain where we were with our platform, how we changed some things, for the better, in our move from AWS to GCP, and how we think we can help improve things here at Harness. ...