This section describes the basic requirements for setting up an Anthos GKE cluster (previously known as GKE On-Prem) suitable for a production environment.
Creating the cluster
For information about creating Anthos GKE clusters, see Creating admin and user clusters in the Anthos GKE on-prem 1.5 documentation.
Production cluster requirements
Use these requirements as a guide when creating your production cluster.
Software versions
Requirement | Value |
---|---|
Anthos version | Version 1.2 |
kubectl version | Version 1.14.x or later. See Install and Set Up kubectl. |
Node requirements
You must configure and label two types of nodes in your cluster -- one for the stateful Cassandra pods and one for the rest of the pods, which are stateless. Configure these node types as described below:
Stateful node configuration
Requirement | Value |
---|---|
Minimum number of nodes | 6 |
Node specifications |
8 CPU (Minimum) 16 GB Ram (Minimum) |
Kubernetes label | Name: apigee.com/apigee-nodepool Value: apigee-data
|
Storage | Dynamically provisioned. |
Stateless node configuration
Requirement | Value |
---|---|
Minimum number of nodes | 3 |
Node specification |
8 CPU (Minimum) 16 GB Ram (Minimum) |
Kubernetes label | Name: apigee.com/apigee-nodepool Value: apigee-runtime
|
Storage | Dynamically provisioned. |