For more background info please goto the following site where the complete tutorial is written out, this a TLDR;-walkthrough. https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/persistent-disk#step_3_set_up_mysql

Here you can also find the Manifest Yaml-files needed to follow along.

In the GCP Console carry out the following commands:

Setup

gcloud config set compute/zone europe-west4-b

gcloud container clusters create persistent-disk-tutorial --num-nodes=3

gcloud compute disks create --size 200GB mysql-disk

gcloud compute disks create --size 200GB wordpress-disk

kubectl create secret generic mysql --from-literal=password=[YOUR_PASSWORD]

Demo Part 1

make sure your in the right directory..

kubectl create -f mysql.yaml

kubectl get pod -l app=mysql

kubectl create -f mysql-service.yaml

kubectl get service mysql

kubectl create -f wordpress.yaml

kubectl get pod -l app=wordpress

kubectl create -f wordpress-service.yaml

kubectl get svc -l app=wordpress -w

Browser Wordpress setup, connect to External IP

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Demo Resilience

kubectl get pods -o=wide

kubectl delete pod -l app=mysql

kubectl get pods -o=wide

Cleanup

kubectl delete service wordpress

gcloud compute forwarding-rules list

gcloud container clusters delete persistent-disk-tutorial

gcloud compute disks delete mysql-disk wordpress-disk