This page provides examples of using the command
gcloud container vmware clusters create to create a user cluster.
After creating the user cluster, you need to create at least one node pool.
You can use the command
gcloud container vmware node-pools create to
create a node pool.
All of the examples use the defaults for the control plane, so those flags aren't included.
DCHP
This section shows examples of getting IP addresses for you cluster nodes from a DHCP server.
MetalLB
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-1 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=us-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --enable-dhcp \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-1,manual-assign=False,avoid-buggy-ips=True,addresses=10.251.133.0/24;10.251.134.80/32;10.251.134.81/32' \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-2,manual-assign=True,addresses=172.16.20.62/32' \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
For a description of the --metal-lb-config-address-pools flag,
see Load balancer.
F5 load balancer
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-2 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=us-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --enable-dhcp \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --f5-config-address=203.0.113.2 \ --f5-config-partition=my-f5-admin-partition \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
For a description of the F5 flags, see Load balancer.
Static IPs
This section provides examples using static IPs for your cluster nodes. A user
cluster needs to have one IP address for each node and an additional IP address
for a temporary node that is needed during cluster upgrades, updates, and
auto repair. For a description of the --static-ip-config-ip-blocks flag
see Networking.
MetalLB
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-3 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=europe-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.254,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.10 user-vm-1;172.16.20.11 user-vm-2' \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.255,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.12 user-vm-3;172.16.20.13 extra-vm' \ --dns-servers=203.0.113.1,198.51.100.1 \ --dns-search-domains=example.com,altostrat.com \ --ntp-servers=216.239.35.4,216.239.35.5 \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-1,manual-assign=False,avoid-buggy-ips=True,addresses=10.251.133.0/24;10.251.134.80/32;10.251.134.81/32' \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-2,manual-assign=True,addresses=172.16.20.62/32' \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
Manual load balancer
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-4 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=asia-east1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.254,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.10 user-vm-1;172.16.20.11 user-vm-2' \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.255,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.12 user-vm-3;172.16.20.13 extra-vm' \ --dns-servers=203.0.113.1,198.51.100.1 \ --ntp-servers=216.239.35.4,216.239.35.5 \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --control-plane-node-port=30968 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62 \ --ingress-http-node-port=32527 \ --ingress-https-node-port=30139 \ --konnectivity-server-node-port=30969
Create a node pool
You can use the following command to create a node pool:
gcloud container vmware node-pools create default-pool \
--cluster=user-cluster-1 \
--project=example-project-12345 \
--location=us-west1 \
--image-type=ubuntu_containerd \
--boot-disk-size=40 \
--cpus=8 \
--memory=8192 \
--replicas=5 \
--min-replicas=5 \
--max-replicas=10 \
--enable-load-balancer
For descriptions of the flags, see Create a node pool.