To install gcloud and kubectl, perform the following steps:
Install the Cloud SDK, which includes the gcloud command-line tool.
Install the kubectl command-line tool
$ gcloud components install kubectl
Here we set the project id that will be the home for our Kubernetes nodes and the primary geographic zone for the cluster.
PROJECT_ID=beaconchainCLUSTER_NAME=cardanoCLUSTER_ZONE=us-central1-a# Setting a default project ID$ gcloud config set project $PROJECT_ID# Setting a default compute zone or region$ gcloud config set compute/zone $CLUSTER_ZONE
Lets create a single zone cluster with two medium size nodes.
$ gcloud container clusters create $CLUSTER_NAME \--disk-size=32GB \--machine-type=e2-medium \--node-locations=$CLUSTER_ZONE \--zone=$CLUSTER_ZONE \--num-nodes=2Creating cluster cardano in us-central1-a... Cluster is being health-checked (master is healthy)...done.NAME LOCATION MASTER_VERSION MASTER_IP MACHINE_TYPE NODE_VERSION NUM_NODES STATUScardano us-central1-a 1.18.12-gke.1210 34.123.140.191 e2-medium 1.18.12-gke.1210 2 RUNNING
Great, to install Kubernetes on two nodes and network them together to form a cluster took about 1min.
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials $CLUSTER_NAMEFetching cluster endpoint and auth data.kubeconfig entry generated for cardano.
We should now be able to use the kubectl command
$ kubectl cluster-infoKubernetes master is running at https://34.123.140.191GLBCDefaultBackend is running at https://34.123.140.191/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/default-http-backend:http/proxyKubeDNS is running at https://34.123.140.191/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxyMetrics-server is running at https://34.123.140.191/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:metrics-server:/proxy