Creating GKE cluster using command line

Monday. February 10, 2020 - 1 min

kubernetes GKE GCP

This post is guide for creating a kubernetes cluster in a GCP project.

Enable the Kubernetes Engine API for your GCP project from https://console.cloud.google.com
Install the Google Cloud SDK which includes gcloud command line tools.
Install kubectl which is a command line tool for controlling Kubernetes clusters. To install it as part of the Google Cloud SDK, use:
```
gcloud components install kubectl
```
otherwise, visit https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/

Set default GCP project:

gcloud config set project <YOUR-GCP-PROJECT-ID>

Set default compute zone:

gcloud config set compute/zone <COMPUTE-ZONE>

Create a 3 node cluster with n1-standard-1 machine type:

gcloud container clusters create <CLUSTER-NAME> \
   --num-nodes=3 \
   --machine-type=n1-standard-1 

Get authentication credentials for the cluster to configure kubectl to use the created cluster:
```
gcloud container clusters get-credentials <CLUSTER-NAME>
```

Check if cluster is initialized:

kubectl get node

You will see output something like:

NAME                                         STATUS   ROLES    AGE   VERSION
gke-dev-cluster-default-pool-8206a99e-0shr   Ready    <none>   16h   v1.13.11-gke.23
gke-dev-cluster-default-pool-8206a99e-d9f6   Ready    <none>   16h   v1.13.11-gke.23
gke-dev-cluster-default-pool-8206a99e-fcfk   Ready    <none>   16h   v1.13.11-gke.23

Prashant Anand

Machine Learning Engineer