GKE on AWS installation overview

To create your GKE on AWS environment, perform the following steps:

1. Complete the Prerequisites
2. Install the management service
3. Create user clusters to run your workloads

Before you begin

You can learn about the components of GKE on AWS in Architecture. There are additional concept topics that explain how GKE on AWS handles Authentication, Security, Storage, as well as others.

Management service

A management service creates, updates, and deletes GKE on AWS clusters. You have the following options to install a management service:

• Install a management service into a dedicated AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC).
• Integrate with an existing VPC.
• Configure your management service to use an HTTP proxy.

User clusters

After you install a management service, create your user clusters. Choose from one of the following options to create the user cluster:

• Create a user cluster with default parameters.
• Create a custom user cluster, for example if you want to add node pools with different machine types.
• Create a user cluster with workload identity if you want to assign different AWS IAM roles to each workload.
• If you want to view, monitor, debug, and manage workloads from Google Cloud console, set up your cluster to use Connect using the instructions in Connecting to your cluster with Google Cloud console.

What's next

After you have installed a management service and created user clusters, you are ready to launch workloads. Try one of the following:

• Launch your first workload on GKE on AWS.

• Configure and create an Ingress with Cloud Service Mesh.

• Create an externally facing deployment using a load balancer or an AWS application load balancer.