At GitLab we're building an automated workflow that takes you from zero to k8s called Auto DevOps.

Some of the interaction points between Auto DevOps and Kubernetes are:

- deploying review apps

- deploying production applications

- supporting deployment of staging and canary environments

- monitoring performance

You can also:

- easily create a clusters on GKE through the GitLab UI

- easily install "helper" applications to set up the cluster

- easily install GitLab Runner to run Auto DevOps jobs on the cluster

You can read more about it here: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/