How-to guides

Administering clusters

• Upgrading GKE on-prem

  Upgrade your admin workstation and your clusters.

• Configuring gcloud CLI for use behind a proxy/firewall

  Read Google Cloud CLI's documentation for configuring gcloud to run behind your proxy/firewall.

• Managing clusters

  View, connect to, and check the versions of your clusters.

• Using SSH to connect to a cluster node

  Learn how to SSH into a GKE on-prem cluster node.

• Configuring node auto repair

  Configure GKE on-prem to periodically check node health and make repairs if necessary.

• Resizing a user cluster

  Increase or decrease the number of nodes running in clusters.

• Creating additional user clusters

  Create additional user clusters in an existing installation.

• Creating and managing node pools

  Manage a pool of nodes separately without affecting any of the other nodes in the cluster.

• Updating the vCenter credentials of your clusters

  Update the vCenter credentials of your admin and user clusters with the gkectl update credentials vsphere command.

• Using logging and monitoring

  Learn how to use Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.

• Enabling application logging and monitoring

  Learn how to configure applications to use Cloud Logging and Cloud Monitoring.

• Logging network policy events

  Learn how to enable network policy logging and export logs.

• Creating alerting policies

  Learn how to create alerting policies for GKE on-prem clusters..

• Backing up and restoring clusters

  Manually create and restore backups of GKE on-prem admin and user clusters' etcd key-value stores.

• Updating the Connect agent using a private registry (alpha)

  If you use a private registry, learn how to update the Connect agent.

• Deleting a user cluster

  Delete GKE on-prem user clusters from your environment.

• Deleting an admin cluster

  Delete a GKE on-prem admin cluster from your environment.

• Manually registering a user cluster

  Use gcloud to manually register a user cluster.

• Manually unregistering a user cluster

  Use gcloud to manually unregister a user cluster.

Configuring cluster security

• Hardening your cluster's security

  Learn about best practices for hardening your cluster's security.

• Audit logging

  Use audit logs to investigate suspicious Kubernetes API calls.

Configuring cluster storage

• Setting the default storage class

  Set the default storage class for workloads that you deploy.

• Installing a CSI driver

  Install a vendor's Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver to GKE on-prem clusters.