How to install and Configure the Google Cloud SDK

Accessing Google Container Engine (GKE) cluster through kubeclt from workstation

a) Installation of Cloud SDK

i) # Update YUM with Cloud SDK repo information:Red Hat and Centos.

# Update YUM with Cloud SDK repo information
sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/google-cloud-sdk.repo << EOM
[google-cloud-sdk]
name=Google Cloud SDK
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/cloud-sdk-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg
       https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOM

# Install the Cloud SDK
yum install google-cloud-sdk

ii) Debian and Ubuntu

# Create an environment variable for the correct distribution
export CLOUD_SDK_REPO="cloud-sdk-$(lsb_release -c -s)"

# Add the Cloud SDK distribution URI as a package source
echo "deb http://packages.cloud.google.com/apt $CLOUD_SDK_REPO main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-cloud-sdk.list

# Import the Google Cloud Platform public key
curl https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -

# Update the package list and install the Cloud SDK
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install google-cloud-sdk

b) To get started run gcloud init with console-only option

gcloud init --console-only

c) Select a Cloud Platform project from the list of those where you have Owner, Editor or Viewer permissions

d) To connect cluster through ‘kubectl’, click on ‘‘connect”.

e) copy ‘gcloud container’ command.

f) Paste command which we have copied in ‘step e’.

g) Install the kubectl Kubernetes client.

gcloud components install kubectl

h) Now we have configured kube-config and we can access cluster through kubectl commands.

kubectl get node