Best way to deploy automated deployments in kubernetes on google cloud

Question

I have set up a compute instance or kubernetes instance on Google Cloud with the latest tag and I pushed an image with the same name and tag e.g. image:latest. I'm just trying to figure out what is the best way to setup automated deployments.

What will be it's result if I will perform the following step.

Answer 1

Push a new latest tag on an image which will replace the previous latest tag. It won't cause an automatic container restart unless you configured your CD/CI system.

While useful for development, you should avoid using the latest tag for non-development work. It can introduce surprises and ambiguity that you don't want if a container is restarted unexpectedly.

Answer 2

The first thing you need to do is create a Kubernetes cluster and then deploy your image inside the container on the cluster. You can autoscale(horizontally as well vertically) with ease and also set up a load balancer.