Connecting to Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

Prerequisites

• Have gcloud CLI tool installed.
• Have kubectl CLI tool installed
• Be able to login into google

Connecting

1. Login to gcloud with pcloud auth login. This will open up a browser and let you log in into your service account.
2. Set your project with gcloud config set projects <PROJECT>
   1. You can find your project with gcloud projects list
3. Set your zone
   1. Find your cluster with gcloud container clusters list
   2. Describe your cluster gcloud container clusters describe <CLUSTER>
   3. Set your zone gcloud config set compute/zone <ZONE>
      1. europe-west3 is a valid option, even if it isn’t listed or gives warnings, trust the description output.
4. Setup kubectl with gcloud container clusters get-credentials <CLUSTER>
5. Optional: Setup ArgoCD user credentials with kubectl config set-credentials argocd-user --username=<USERNAME> --password=<PASSWORD>
6. Create KubeCTL context with kubectl config set-context <CONTEXT_NAME> --cluster=<CLUSTER> --user=<USER>
7. Use created context with kubectl config use-context <CONTEXT_NAME>
8. 🎉 you can for example use k9s now.

References

fleeting-2023-11-14