gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1-f
gcloud config set compute/region us-central1
Google Container Engine is Google’s hosted version of Kubernetes.
Note if you have multiple gcloud accounts then specify a project name using the --project flag. By default it can be left off. You can get your project name from the command line with:
gcloud config get-value core/project
Or the project name can be found in the URL of Google Cloud Console. For example if you look in the console it should be something like:
https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/list?project=workshopcluster-177619
The project name in that case is workshopcluster-177619
gcloud container clusters create guestbook --num-nodes 4 --scopes cloud-platform --project <YOUR PROJECT NAME OPTIONAL>
By Ray Tsang @saturnism
This will take a few minutes to run. Behind the scenes, it will create Google Compute Engine instances, and configure each instance as a Kubernetes node. These instances don’t include the Kubernetes Master node. In Google Container Engine, the Kubernetes Master node is managed service so that you don’t have to worry about it!
The scopes parameter is important for this lab. Scopes determine what Google Cloud Platform resources these newly created instances can access. By default, instances are able to read from Google Cloud Storage, write metrics to Google Cloud Monitoring, etc. For our lab, we add the cloud-platform scope to give us more privileges, such as writing to Cloud Storage as well.