Setting up Knative serving on VMware

This guide shows you how to set up GKE on VMware with Knative serving enabled.

Note that installing Knative serving on VMware installs Knative Serving into the cluster to connect and manage your stateless workloads.

Before you begin

1. This task assumes that you have active GKE on VMware. Learn how to create GKE on VMware.

   For information about GKE Enterprise, see GKE Enterprise Pricing.

2. Sign in to your Google Cloud account. If you're new to Google Cloud, create an account to evaluate how our products perform in real-world scenarios. New customers also get $300 in free credits to run, test, and deploy workloads.

3. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

4. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

5. In the Google Cloud console, on the project selector page, select or create a Google Cloud project.

   Note: If you don't plan to keep the resources that you create in this procedure, create a project instead of selecting an existing project. After you finish these steps, you can delete the project, removing all resources associated with the project.

   Go to project selector

6. Make sure that billing is enabled for your Google Cloud project.

Setting up the command-line environment

Set up the gcloud CLI and kubectl for Knative serving on VMware:

1. Install and initialize the Google Cloud CLI.

2. Set the default Google Cloud project that is used by the Google Cloud CLI to the Google Cloud project that you just created:

   gcloud config set project PROJECT-ID

   Replace PROJECT_ID with the ID of your Google Cloud project.

3. Install the kubectl command-line tool:

   gcloud components install kubectl

4. Update installed gcloud CLI components:

   gcloud components update

Installing Knative serving on VMware

You can install Knative serving while creating new GKE on VMware by setting the cloudrun configuration in the config.yaml file:

cloudrun:
  enabled: true

Setting up the Google Cloud console

When using the Google Cloud console, login to the cluster. If you are using a Kubernetes Service Account, be sure to add the cluster-admin role to that Service Account.

What's next

• Knative serving on VMware Quickstart
• Deploying a container on GKE on VMware
• Building containers
• Troubleshooting