With Connect, you can use the Google Cloud console to manage your user clusters for Google Distributed Cloud.
Before you begin
Create a user cluster (quickstart | full instructions).
Cluster registration
Each Google Distributed Cloud user cluster that you create automatically runs the Connect agent and is registered with Connect to your project fleet—a unified way to view and manage multiple clusters and their workloads as part of GKE Enterprise. You can find out more about fleets and the functionality that they enable in our Fleets guide.
Registered clusters are visible in your GKE Enterprise Clusters page in the Google Cloud console and can be used with GKE Enterprise components and features.
If you need to manually register a Google Distributed Cloud cluster with Connect (for example, if you want to move the cluster's membership to a different fleet, or if you unregistered it by mistake), follow the instructions in Registering a cluster.
Logging into your cluster
To manage a registered Google Distributed Cloud cluster from the Google Cloud console, you need to log into the cluster from the console. Doing this lets you view, monitor, debug, and manage workloads on your Google Distributed Cloud clusters through the Google Cloud console.
Follow the instructions in logging into clusters to create the necessary roles and accounts and log in to your cluster.
What's next
Learn about multi-cluster management with Connect.
Learn about cluster authentication with OpenID Connect (OIDC).