Connecting to a cluster from the Google Cloud console

With Connect, you can use the Google Cloud console to manage your user clusters for GKE on VMware.

Before you begin

Create a user cluster (quickstart | full instructions).

Cluster registration

Each GKE on VMware 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 GKE on VMware 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 GKE on VMware 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 GKE on VMware 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.

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