GoogleGKE.md

Google Kubernetes Engine

Setup time ~ 7 minutes

Install Google Cloud CLI

Ref: https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/install

Login with gcloud

gcloud init

Create GKE cluster

gcloud container clusters create my-redis-cluster \
  --num-nodes 3 --machine-type e2-standard-4

Ref: gcloud container clusters create documentation https://cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/create

Ref: VM types/sizes: https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/general-purpose-machines#e2-standard recommended node size - at least 4 cores/16GB RAM

Add cluster credentials to kubectl

gcloud container clusters create automatically adds newly created cluster credentials as the default context upon creation. No additional actions needed.

Delete cluster

gcloud container clusters delete my-redis-cluster 

Clear up kubectl context

kubectl config delete-context my-redis-cluster