Creating clusters
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Creating a zonal cluster
Learn how to create a zonal cluster.
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Creating a regional cluster
Learn how to create a regional cluster to increase availability of the cluster's control plane and workloads during cluster upgrades, automated maintenance, or a zonal disruption.
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Creating an Autopilot cluster
Learn how to set up an Autopilot cluster, where Google manages the cluster's underlying infrastructure including nodes and node pools.
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Creating a private cluster
Learn how to set up a private cluster.
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Creating an alpha cluster
Learn how to create an alpha cluster, a cluster with Kubernetes alpha features enabled in Google Kubernetes Engine.
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Creating a cluster using Windows Server node pools
Learn how to create a cluster where you can use Windows Server containers.
Administering clusters
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Cluster administration overview
Learn the basics of administering your GKE clusters.
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Managing clusters
Learn how to view your clusters, set a default cluster for command-line tools, and change a cluster's zones.
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Understanding cluster resource usage
Track the usage of cluster resources such as CPU, GPU, memory, network egress, and storage.
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Configuring cluster access for kubectl
Learn how to configure cluster access for kubectl.
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Manually upgrading a cluster or node pool
Learn about upgrading the Kubernetes version running on your cluster or its nodes.
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Resizing a cluster
Learn how to change the number of nodes in your cluster or node pool.
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Autoscaling a cluster
Learn how to automatically scale a cluster.
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Viewing cluster autoscaler events
Learn how the cluster autoscaler emits visibility events, and how to view the logged events.
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Deleting a cluster
Learn how to delete a cluster and clean up your GKE environment.
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Adding and managing node pools
Learn about adding new node pools and managing existing ones in your clusters.
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Customizing node system configuration
Learn how to apply advanced configuration options to the `kubelet` and `sysctl` in your node pools.
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Applying updates to existing node pools (preview)
Learn how how to dynamically update the network tags, node labels and node taints of an existing node pool.
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Using Compute Engine sole-tenant nodes in GKE
Learn how to use sole-tenant nodes in GKE.
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Consuming reserved zonal resources
Learn how to reserve Compute Engine instances in a specific zone.
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Using node auto-provisioning
Learn how to use node auto-provisioning to automatically create and delete node pools.
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Specifying a node image
Learn how to run a specific node image on your nodes.
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Auto-upgrading nodes
Learn how to configure your nodes to automatically upgrade to the latest version of Kubernetes.
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Receiving cluster upgrade notifications
Learn how to receive notifications for cluster upgrades.
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Verifying node upgrades and quota
Learn how to verify your node upgrades.
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Auto-repairing nodes
Learn how to automatically repair your nodes.
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Observing your GKE clusters
Learn how to observe your GKE clusters using monitoring dashboards.
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Configuring maintenance windows and exclusions
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.
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Creating and managing cluster labels
Learn how to organize your Google Cloud clusters with cluster labels.
Configuring and expanding clusters
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Running GPUs
Learn how to run GPUs in your clusters and node pools.
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Choosing a minimum CPU platform
Learn how to choose a minimum CPU platform for your clusters and nodes.
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Reducing add-on resource usage in smaller clusters
Learn how to conserve cluster resources in small clusters by fine-tuning cluster add-ons.
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Configuring a custom boot disk
Learn how to customize a node boot disk.
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Running preemptible VMs
Learn how to run preemptible VMs in your clusters.
Deploying workloads to clusters
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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.
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Deploying a stateless Linux application
Learn how to deploy a stateless Linux application on your cluster.
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Deploying a stateless Windows Server application
Learn how to deploy a stateless Windows Server application.
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Deploying a stateful application
Learn how to deploy a stateful application on your cluster.
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Deploying an application from Cloud Marketplace
Learn how to deploy an application from Google Cloud Marketplace to your cluster.
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Running a job
Learn how to run a finite or batch job on your cluster.
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Running a CronJob (Beta)
Learn how to run a timed or time-sensitive job on your cluster.
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Scaling an application
Learn how to scale the number of running replicas of your application, either manually or automatically.
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Configuring horizontal Pod autoscaling
Learn how to autoscale a Deployment using different types of metrics.
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Configuring vertical Pod autoscaling
Learn how to automatically update CPU and memory requests for containers.
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Configuring multidimensional Pod autoscaling
Learn how to combine elements of horizontal and vertical Pod autoscaling.
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Migrating between API versions of VerticalPodAutoscaler
Learn how to migrate VerticalPodAutoscaler objects from API versions v1beta1 to v1beta2.
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Performing rolling updates
Learn how to perform rolling upgrades, which can update your running applications without downtime.
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Controlling scheduling with node taints
Learn how to use the GKE node taints feature to help control where your workloads are scheduled.
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Managing applications with Application Delivery (Beta)
Use Application Delivery and private Git repositories to manage and deploy applications on GKE.
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Setting up automated deployments
Learn how to configure automated deployments for your workloads.
Configuring cluster storage
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Creating volumes
Learn how to create a Deployment where each Pod contains one or more volumes.
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Manually installing a CSI driver
Learn how to install a Container Storage Interface (CSI) storage driver.
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Using the Compute Engine persistent disk CSI Driver
Learn how to automatically deploy and manage the Compute Engine persistent disk CSI Driver.
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Using persistent disks with multiple readers
Learn how to format and mount a disk for multiple readers.
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Using SSD persistent disks
Learn how to use persistent disks backed by SSDs in your cluster.
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Using preexisting persistent disks as PersistentVolumes
Learn how to add a preexisting persistent disk to your cluster.
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Provisioning regional persistent disks
Learn how to dynamically or manually provision regional persistent disks to replicate data between two zones in the same region.
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Using local SSDs
Learn how to use local SSDs to provide high-performance, ephemeral storage to nodes in your cluster.
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Using volume expansion (Beta)
Learn how to use volume expansion to increase the size of your volume after its creation.
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Using volume snapshots (Beta)
Learn how to use volume snapshots to create a copy of your persistent volume.
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Using customer-managed encryption keys
Learn how to manage encryption for disks using keys in Cloud KMS.
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Accessing Cloud Firestore fileshares
Learn how to access a Filestore fileshare by creating a persistent volume and persistent volume claim.
Configuring cluster networking
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Creating a routes-based cluster
Learn how to set up IP ranges for a routes-based cluster.
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Creating a VPC-native cluster
Learn how to set up IP aliasing on your GKE cluster.
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Setting up intranode visibility
Learn how to make all Pod-to-Pod communication visible to the Google Cloud network.
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Optimizing IP address allocation
Learn how to optimize how IP addresses are allocated to nodes by configuring the maximum number of Pods per node.
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Adding Pod IP address ranges (Preview)
Learn how to use discontiguous multi-Pod CIDR to add Pod IP address ranges to clusters.
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Setting up clusters with Shared VPC
Learn how to set up GKE clusters that use Shared VPC.
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Creating a cluster network policy
Learn how to enforce a Kubernetes network policy on your GKE cluster.
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Using Dataplane V2
Learn how to use Dataplane V2 with your GKE clusters.
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Using network policy logging (Beta)
Learn how to use network policy logging to record connections allowed and denied by network policies.
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Using an IP masquerade agent
Learn how to set up an IP masquerade agent on your GKE cluster to allow multiple clients to access a destination using a single IP address.
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Setting up NodeLocal DNSCache
Learn how to set up local DNS caches on your cluster nodes.
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Configuring TCP/UDP load balancing
Learn how to configure Services of type LoadBalancer.
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Exposing applications using Services
Learn how to expose your application to network traffic from outside your cluster.
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Using an internal load balancer
Learn how to set up an internal load balancer on your GKE cluster.
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Configuring Ingress for external load balancing
Learn how to configure an external HTTP(S) load balancer by creating an Ingress object.
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Configuring Ingress for internal load balancing
Learn how to configure an internal HTTP(S) load balancer by creating an Ingress object.
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Container-native load balancing through Ingress
Learn how to set up container-native load balancing.
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Using Google-managed SSL certificates
Learn how to use Ingresses to create external load balancers with Google-managed SSL certificates.
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Using multiple SSL certificates in HTTPS load balancing with Ingress
Learn how to use multiple SSL certificates with your cluster's HTTP(S) load balancer.
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Using HTTP/2 for load balancing with Ingress
Learn how to configure an HTTP(S) load balancer to use HTTP/2.
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Configuring Ingress features
Learn about the features available for your Ingress controller and how to configure these features through parameters.
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Container-native load balancing with standalone zonal NEGs
Learn how to use network endpoint groups independent of Ingress.
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Configuring multi-cluster Services
Learn how to use multi-cluster Service to discover and invoke Services across multiple GKE clusters.
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Setting up Multi-cluster Ingress
Create and register the clusters needed to create a multi-cluster Ingress.
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Deploying Ingress across clusters
Learn how to deploy Ingress across multiple clusters.
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Troubleshooting and operations for Multi-cluster Ingress
Learn how to troubleshoot problems with the Anthos Ingress controller.
Configuring cluster security
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Hardening your cluster's security
Follow best practices for hardening your cluster.
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Creating Cloud IAM policies
Learn how to create Identity and Access Management policies for users and service accounts.
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Using Workload Identity
Learn how to grant your workloads access to Google Cloud APIs.
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Configuring role-based access control
Learn how to create roles and grant them access to specific resources in namespaces or clusters.
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Authenticating to the Kubernetes API server
Learn about the supported authentication methods when connecting to the Kubernetes API server in GKE.
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Using Kubernetes service accounts
Learn about Kubernetes service accounts and how and when to use them in GKE.
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Migrating from legacy access scopes
Learn how to migrate your pre-Kubernetes 1.10 clusters from access scopes to IAM for authentication.
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Adding authorized networks for control plane access
Learn how to set up authorized networks on your GKE cluster.
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Encrypting secrets at the application layer
Learn how to encrypt Kubernetes Secrets at the application level.
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Using customer-managed encryption keys (CMEK)
Learn how to manage encryption for disks using keys in Cloud KMS.
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Rotating your control plane IP
Learn how to rotate the IP address for your cluster's API server.
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Rotating your cluster credentials
Learn how to rotate the credentials for your cluster's API server.
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Accessing audit logs
Learn how to use Kubernetes audit logging in your cluster.
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Enabling Linux auditd logs on GKE nodes
Learn how to enable verbose operating system audit logs.
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Applying Pod security policies using Gatekeeper
Learn the recommended way to apply Pod-level security controls to your clusters.
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Using PodSecurityPolicies (Beta)
Learn how to use PodSecurityPolicies to restrict the capabilities of Pods in your clusters.
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Harden workload isolation with GKE Sandbox
Learn how to protect the host kernel on your cluster's nodes.
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Protecting cluster metadata
Learn how to protect instance metadata on your cluster's nodes.
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Using Shielded GKE Nodes
Learn how to run your cluster nodes on Shielded VMs.
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Using Confidential GKE Nodes (Beta)
Learn how to enable encryption-in-use for your workloads.
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Mitigating security incidents
Learn actions you can take to mitigate potential ongoing security incidents.
Using Config Connector for Kubernetes
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Config Connector overview
Learn how to manage Google Cloud resources using Kubernetes tooling and APIs.
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Installing, upgrading, and uninstalling Config Connector
Learn how to install Config Connector on your cluster.
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Getting started with Config Connector
Learn how to enable the Cloud Storage API and create and manage Cloud Storage buckets.