# GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples

Sample applications for Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Repository: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kubernetes-engine-samples
Homepage: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/
Language: HCL
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: samples
Last push: 2026-08-12T19:50:19+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 76/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 97, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3821, "days_push": 21, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1362, forks 1299 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:30.322309+00:00)

## What it is
A collection of sample applications maintained by Google for use with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) tutorials. It provides reference deployments and quickstart demos for learning to run containerized workloads on GKE.

## Use cases
- learn how to deploy apps on google kubernetes engine
- find sample kubernetes manifests for gke tutorials
- quickstart demo for deploying a containerized web app
- reference examples for gke autopilot and standard clusters
- copy working deployment configs for gcp kubernetes

## When to choose
- you are learning GKE and want official, tutorial-aligned examples
- you need a starting point for deploying containerized apps on Google Cloud
- you want maintained sample code referenced by GKE documentation

## When to avoid
- you need production-ready application code rather than educational samples
- you use a different Kubernetes provider like EKS or AKS
- you want a reusable library or framework rather than example repositories

## Facets
- artifact type: learning-resource
- maturity: active
- function: container-orchestration, deployment, developer-tools
- domain: cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cloud, go, python
- tags: gke, google-cloud, sample-applications, kubernetes, tutorials, hcl, terraform, containers, devops, docker

## Member repositories
- GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples (main) score 76

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.322309+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:41:28.105504+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes-engine-samples (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:30.322309+00:00, sha 855fe8ae41c4)
  - homepage: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/tutorials/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:59:01.711802+00:00, sha 544e01541002)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.