The Google Distributed Cloud documentation provides an initial
installation journey
that makes several choices to keep the experience easy and straightforward.
When you complete the initial installation journey, you have an admin cluster
and a small user cluster.
This section of the documentation has a collection of advanced topics related to
setting up your vSphere environment and installing Google Distributed Cloud.
For example, in the initial installation journey, you create a user cluster that
has three nodes. Given that the cluster has only three nodes, the documentation
can list simple CPU, RAM, and storage requirements for your vSphere environment.
Going forward, you might want to create a user cluster that has more than three
nodes. In that case, you should read CPU, RAM, and storage
requirements,
which gives detailed instructions on how to calculate your resource requirements
depending on your cluster size and the types of workloads you intend to run.
The initial installation journey used the F5 BIG-IP load balancer along with
integrated load balancing mode. For an overview of load balancing modes and
instructions on how to manually configure some alternatives to F5 BIG-IP, see
Setting up your load
balancer.
Use the following topics to learn how to configure and install
Google Distributed Cloud with all options, including how to configure a
private Docker registry:
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