Kubernetes > Create a cluster on Google cloud platform

Launch the Google Cloud Platform Dashboard,

On the navigation panel, click on Kubernetes Engine
Then, click on Create Cluster

Leave everything default, and click on create, this will create a 3 node cluster

You can see the cluster being created, click on connect

Click on Run in Cloud Shell

Press Enter on the Cloud Shell

Welcome to Cloud Shell! Type "help" to get started.
Your Cloud Platform project in this session is set to cobalt-vector-220612.
Use “gcloud config set project [PROJECT_ID]” to change to a different project.
networkandcode@cloudshell:~ (cobalt-vector-220612)$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials standard-cluster-1 --zone us-central1-a --project cobalt-vector-220612
Fetching cluster endpoint and auth data.
kubeconfig entry generated for standard-cluster-1.
networkandcode@cloudshell:~ (cobalt-vector-220612)$

if you want to see the cloud shell on a separate window, click on the open in a new window icon

Let's verify the kubectl version and the number of nodes (we know it should be 3). Note that kubectl is the cli tool to interact with the kubernetes cluster

networkandcode@cloudshell:~ (cobalt-vector-220612)$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"10", GitVersion:"v1.10.7", GitCommit:"0c38c362511b20a098d7cd855f1314dad92c2780", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-08-20T10:09:03Z", GoVersion:"go1.9.3", Compiler
:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"11+", GitVersion:"v1.11.6-gke.2", GitCommit:"04ad69a117f331df6272a343b5d8f9e2aee5ab0c", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-01-04T16:19:46Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.3b4"
, Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
networkandcode@cloudshell:~ (cobalt-vector-220612)$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
gke-standard-cluster-1-default-pool-86972d60-0bwm Ready <none> 11m v1.11.6-gke.2
gke-standard-cluster-1-default-pool-86972d60-bf44 Ready <none> 11m v1.11.6-gke.2
gke-standard-cluster-1-default-pool-86972d60-gncq Ready <none> 11m v1.11.6-gke.2
networkandcode@cloudshell:~ (cobalt-vector-220612)$

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