[robertwt7]

Heya, you have the exact same issue as I am. I needed to deploy our apps back then (we're in a team of 2) after developing for 1.5 years in small company. Boss decided to suddenly go with GCP, then I decided that I want to use K8s (which paid off finally!).

Things I started doing was to follow tutorial in k8s, it is a LOT to take in. Install minikube, start with simple Deployment sets and deploy with apply instead of helm. Then you can go from there.

I reckon after you learn k8s all you need to do is to spin up GKE which you should learn after. Depends on what you need, you might need to setup external LB from GCP. I started with nginx-ingress, works amazing, setup the LB automatically and everything.

In summary, k8s docs is your best shot, start slow from tutorial, practice practice and you have to read what's the problem when something fails

Rather than looking how to debug, these 2 commands cover my needs most of the time: kubectl logs <resource-name> kubectl describe <resource-type> <resource-name>