Deploy Gardener on Google Cloud C4A (Arm-based Axion VMs)

About this Learning Path

Who is this for?

This is an introductory topic for software developers deploying and optimizing Gardener workloads on Linux Arm64 environments, specifically using Google Cloud C4A virtual machines powered by Axion processors.

What will you learn?

Upon completion of this Learning Path, you will be able to:

• Provision an Arm-based SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) virtual machine on Google Cloud (C4A with Axion processors)
• Install and configure Gardener on a SUSE Arm64 (C4A) instance
• Deploy Garden, Seed, and Shoot clusters locally using Kubernetes in Docker (KinD)
• Validate Gardener functionality by deploying workloads into a Shoot cluster
• Perform baseline security benchmarking of Gardener-managed Kubernetes clusters using kube-bench on Arm64

Prerequisites

Before starting, you will need the following:

• A Google Cloud Platform (GCP) account with billing enabled
• Basic familiarity with Kubernetes
• Familiarity with container concepts ( Docker )