Choose an access method to log in to fleet member clusters

This document is for developers and other users who have identities from third-party providers and need to access fleet member clusters from the command line.

Before you begin

• Log in from the command line

  If you want to use one of the command line login options, do the following:

  1. Ensure that you have the following command line tools installed:

     • The latest version of the Google Cloud CLI, which includes gcloud , the command line tool for interacting with Google Cloud. If you need to install the Google Cloud CLI, see the installation guide .
     • kubectl for running commands against Kubernetes clusters. If you need to install kubectl , see the installation guide .

  2. Run the following commands to install or update the anthos-auth component:

     gcloud components update
     gcloud components install anthos-auth

  3. Verify that the component was installed successfully by running the following command:

     gcloud anthos auth version

     If a version is returned, your installation was successful.

• Log in from the Google Cloud console

  For OIDC and AzureAD providers only, you can also log in to clusters from the Google Cloud console without a configuration file or FQDN. For more information, see Work with clusters from the Google Cloud console .

Access methods to log in to clusters

To log in to your configured clusters, use one of the following access methods:

• Log in from the command line with FQDN access: If you need to log in to your clusters using a fully qualified domain name, see FQDN access .
• Log in from the command line with file-based access: If you need to log in to your clusters with a configuration file, see file-based access .