With Connect, you can use the Google Cloud console to manage your user clusters for Anthos clusters on VMware (GKE on-prem).
Cluster registration
When you create a user cluster, you provide registration information in the
gkeConnect section of the cluster configuration file. Anthos clusters on VMware
uses that information to register your cluster to a fleet—a unified way
to view and manage multiple clusters and their workloads as part of
Anthos. You can find out more about fleets and the functionality that
they enable in the Fleets guide.
Registered clusters are visible in your fleet host project on the Anthos Clusters page in the Google Cloud console.
As of version 1.9, user cluster registration is required at the time of creation. For user clusters that are upgraded to version 1.9 or later, registration is required during an upgrade. To register a user cluster after it has
been created, fill in the gkeConnect section of the configuration file, and
run gkectl update cluster.
Anthos clusters on VMware does not support using gcloud to manually change the
registration of a cluster.
Logging into your cluster
To manage a registered Anthos clusters on VMware cluster from the Google Cloud console, you need to log in to the cluster from 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).