How-to Guides

Administering clusters

• Cluster administration overview

  Learn the basics of administering your GKE clusters.

• Understanding Cluster Resource Usage

  Track the usage of cluster resouces such as CPU, GPU, memory, network egress, and storage.

• Creating a cluster

  Learn how to create a cluster or a node pool, and about the available options for node types, images, and zones.

• Managing clusters

  Learn how to view your clusters, set a default cluster for command-line tools, and update a cluster's zones.

• Configuring cluster access for kubectl

  Learn how to configure cluster access for kubectl.

• Upgrading a cluster

  Learn about upgrading the Kubernetes version running on your cluster's (or node pool's) nodes.

• Resizing a cluster

  Learn how to change the number of nodes in your cluster or node pool.

• Autoscaling a cluster

  Learn how to automatically scale a cluster.

• Configuring Vertical Pod Autoscaling

  Learn how to automatically update CPU and memory requests for containers.

• Deleting a cluster

  Learn how to delete a cluster and clean up your GKE environment.

• Adding and Managing Node Pools

  Learn about adding new nodes pools and managing existing ones in your clusters.

• Using Node Auto-Provisioning

  Learn how to use node auto-provisioning.

• Specifying a node image

  Learn how to run a specific node image on your nodes.

• Auto-upgrading nodes

  Learn how to configure your nodes to automatically upgrade to the latest version of Kubernetes.

• Auto-repairing nodes

  Learn how to automatically repair your nodes.

• Setting up Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring

  Learn how to capture logs and metrics for your cluster with Stackdriver Kubernetes Engine Monitoring.

• Configuring maintenance windows and exclusions (beta)

  Learn how to use maintenance windows and exclusions to control when automatic maintenance, such as cluster and node auto-upgrades, can and cannot occur on your clusters

• Using Google Cloud labels on your cluster (Beta)

  Learn how to use Google Cloud labels on your GKE clusters.

Configuring and expanding clusters

• Running GPUs

  Learn how to run GPUs in your clusters and node pools.

• Choosing a minimum CPU platform

  Learn how to choose a minimum CPU platform for your clusters and nodes.

• Limiting Resource Usage in Small Clusters

  Learn how to conserve cluster resources in small clusters by fine tuning cluster add-ons.

• Configuring a custom boot disk

  Learn how to customize node's boot disk type.

• Running preemptible VMs (Beta)

  Learn how to run preemptible VMs in your clusters.

Deploying workloads to clusters

• Overview of deploying workloads on your cluster

  Learn the basics of how to deploy different types of applications, jobs, and other workloads on your cluster.

• Deploying a stateless application

  Learn how to deploy a stateless application on your cluster.

• Deploying a stateful application

  Learn how to deploy a stateful application on your cluster.

• Running a Job

  Learn how to run a finite or batch job on your cluster.

• Running a CronJob (Beta)

  Learn how to run a timed or time-sensitive job on your cluster.

• Exposing applications using Services

  Learn how to expose your application to network traffic from outside your cluster.

• Scaling an application

  Learn how to scale the number of running replicas of your application, either manually or automatically.

• Performing rolling updates

  Learn how to perform rolling upgrades, which can update your running applications without downtime.

• Controlling scheduling with node taints

  Learn how to use the Kubernetes node taints feature to help control where your workloads are scheduled.

Configuring cluster storage

• Using volumes

  Learn how to create a Deployment where each Pod contains one or more volumes.

• Using Persistent Disks with multiple readers

  Learn how to create a disk that can be mounted for reading by multiple applications, or multiple replicas of one application.

• Using SSD persistent disks

  Learn how to use persistent disks backed by SSDs in your cluster.

• Using preexisting persistent disks as PersistentVolumes

  Learn how to add a preexisting persistent disk to your cluster.

• Using regional persistent disks

  Learn how to use regional persistent disks to replicate date between two zones in the same region.

• Using local SSDs

  Learn how to use local SSDs to provide high-performance, ephemeral storage to nodes in your cluster.

• Accessing Cloud Filestore fileshares

  Learn how to access a Filestore fileshare by creating a persistent volume and persistent volume claim.

Configuring cluster networking

• Configuring load balancing through Ingress

  Learn how to configure an HTTP(S) load balancer by creating an Ingress object.

• Using Google-managed SSL certificates

  Learn how to use Google-managed SSL certificates with your clusters's HTTP(S) load balancer.

• HTTP/2 for Load Balancing with Ingress (Beta)

  Learn how to configure an HTTP(S) load balancer to use HTTP/2.

• Using multiple SSL certs for load balancing with Ingress (Beta)

  Learn how to use multiple SSL certificates with your cluster's HTTP(S) load balancer.

• Setting up a multi-cluster Ingress

  Learn how to set up a multi-cluster Ingress.

• Configuring a backend service through Ingress

  Learn how to use an Ingress object to configure a backend service.

• Creating a routes-based cluster

  Learn how to set up IP ranges for a routes-based cluster.

• Creating VPC-native clusters using Alias IPs

  Learn how to set up IP aliasing on your GKE cluster.

• Intranode Visibility

  Learn how to make all Pod-to-Pod communication visible to the Google Cloud network.

• Setting up Clusters with Shared VPC

  Learn how to set up GKE clusters that use Shared VPC.

• Setting up a Private Cluster

  Learn how to set up a private GKE cluster.

• Setting a cluster network policy

  Learn how to set up a Kubernetes network policy on your GKE cluster.

• Adding authorized Networks for cluster master access

  Learn how to set up a Kubernetes master authorized networks on your GKE cluster.

• Using Container-native load balancing

  Learn how to set up container-native load balancing.

• Standalone network endpoint groups (Beta)

  Learn how to use network endpoint groups independently.

• Using an Internal Load Balancer (Beta)

  Learn how to set up an internal load balancer on your GKE cluster.

• Optimizing IP address allocation

  Learn how to optimze how IP addresses are allocated to nodes by configuring the maximum number of Pods per node.

• Using an IP masquerade agent

  Learn how to set up an IP masquerade agent on your GKE cluster.

Configuring cluster security

• Creating Cloud IAM Policies

  Learn how to create Cloud Identity and Access Management policies for users and service accounts.

• Workload identity (Beta)

  Learn how to grant your workloads access to Google Cloud APIs.

• Using Role-Based Access Control

  Learn how to create roles and grant them access to specific resources in your cluster.

• Migrating from Legacy Access Scopes

  Learn how to migrate your pre-Kubernetes 1.10 clusters from access scopes to Cloud IAM for authentication.

• Using PodSecurityPolicies (Beta)

  Learn how to use PodSecurityPolicies to restrict the capabilities of Pods in your clusters.

• Cloud Content Delivery Network

  Learn how to use a BackendConfig custom resource to configure Cloud CDN for your clusters.

• Configuring Cloud Armor

  Learn how to use a BackendConfig custom resource to configure Cloud Armor for your clusters.

• Rotating your cluster master IP

  Learn how to rotate the IP address for your cluster master's API server.

• Rotating Your Cluster Credentials

  Learn how to rotate the credentials for your cluster master's API server.

• Application-layer secrets encryption

  Learn how to encrypt Kubernetes Secrets at the application level.

• Accessing Audit Logs

  Learn how to use Kubernetes audit logging in your cluster.

• Enabling Linux auditd logs

  Learn how to enable verbbose operating system audit logs.

• Protecting Cluster Metadata

  Learn how protect instance metadata on your cluster's nodes.

• Hardening Your Cluster's Security

  Follow best practices for hardening your cluster.

• Using Shielded GKE Nodes (Beta)

  Learn how to run your cluster nodes on Shielded VMs.

Managing jobs with Batch on GKE

• Managing Batch on GKE clusters (Beta)

  Learn how to manage Batch clusters.

• Managing Batch on GKE Resources (Beta)

  Learn how to manage jobs, queues, budgets, constraints, and other Batch resources.

• Managing I/O for Batch on GKE (Beta)

  Learn how to manage storage options for Batch.

• Managing Batch on GKE users (Beta)

  Learn how to add, remove and grant permissions to Batch users.

• Running jobs with Batch on GKE (Beta)

  Learn how to run a batch job on Batch on GKE.

Using Google Cloud Platform Service Broker

• Overview

  Learn about Google Cloud Platform Service Broker and Service Catalog.

• Installing Service Catalog (Beta)

  Learn how to install Service Catalog in your cluster to access Google Cloud Platform Service Broker.

• Discovering and using Google Cloud services (Beta)

  Learn how to use other Google Cloud services in your application with Service Broker and Service Catalog.