Google Kubernetes Engine

Follow these instructions to prepare a GKE cluster for Istio.

  1. Create a new cluster.

    $ export PROJECT_ID=`gcloud config get-value project` && \ export M_TYPE=n1-standard-2 && \ export ZONE=us-west2-a && \ export CLUSTER_NAME=${PROJECT_ID}-${RANDOM} && \ gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com && \ gcloud container clusters create $CLUSTER_NAME \ --cluster-version latest \ --machine-type=$M_TYPE \ --num-nodes 4 \ --zone $ZONE \ --project $PROJECT_ID
  2. Retrieve your credentials for kubectl.

    $ gcloud container clusters get-credentials $CLUSTER_NAME \ --zone $ZONE \ --project $PROJECT_ID
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