To follow along with the instructions in this chapter, please download this book's GitHub repository, along with the examples, at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Mastering-GitLab-12/tree/master/Chapter11.

Here, in the Chapter11 directory, you will find two applications that are used for the examples in this chapter.

To run certain automation scripts, you need an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account, which can be created here: https://aws.amazon.com/free/.

For the instructions on how to create a cluster on the Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), you also need a Google account that you can use with Google Cloud, which you can create here: https://cloud.google.com/products/search/apply/.