This page provides examples of using the command gcloud container vmware clusters create
to create a user cluster.
After creating the user cluster, you need to create at least one node pool.
You can use the command gcloud container vmware node-pools create
to create a node pool
.
All of the examples use the defaults for the control plane , so those flags aren't included.
DCHP
This section shows examples of getting IP addresses for you cluster nodes from a DHCP server.
MetalLB
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-1 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=us-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --enable-dhcp \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-1,manual-assign=False,avoid-buggy-ips=True,addresses=10.251.133.0/24;10.251.134.80/32;10.251.134.81/32' \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-2,manual-assign=True,addresses=172.16.20.62/32' \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
For a description of the --metal-lb-config-address-pools
flag,
see Load balancer
.
F5 load balancer
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-2 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=us-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --enable-dhcp \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --f5-config-address=203.0.113.2 \ --f5-config-partition=my-f5-admin-partition \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
For a description of the F5 flags, see Load balancer .
Static IPs
This section provides examples using static IPs for your cluster nodes. A user
cluster needs to have one IP address for each node and an additional IP address
for a temporary node that is needed during cluster upgrades, updates, and
auto repair. For a description of the --static-ip-config-ip-blocks
flag
see Networking
.
MetalLB
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-3 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=europe-west1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.254,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.10 user-vm-1;172.16.20.11 user-vm-2' \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.255,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.12 user-vm-3;172.16.20.13 extra-vm' \ --dns-servers=203.0.113.1,198.51.100.1 \ --dns-search-domains=example.com,altostrat.com \ --ntp-servers=216.239.35.4,216.239.35.5 \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-1,manual-assign=False,avoid-buggy-ips=True,addresses=10.251.133.0/24;10.251.134.80/32;10.251.134.81/32' \ --metal-lb-config-address-pools='pool=lb-pool-2,manual-assign=True,addresses=172.16.20.62/32' \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62
Manual load balancer
gcloud container vmware clusters create user-cluster-4 \ --project=example-project-12345 \ --location=asia-east1 \ --admin-cluster-membership=projects/example-project-12345/locations/global/memberships/admin-cluster-1 \ --version=1.16.7-gke.46 \ --admin-users=sara@example.com \ --admin-users=amal@example.com \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.254,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.10 user-vm-1;172.16.20.11 user-vm-2' \ --static-ip-config-ip-blocks='gateway=172.16.23.255,netmask=255.255.252.0,ips=172.16.20.12 user-vm-3;172.16.20.13 extra-vm' \ --dns-servers=203.0.113.1,198.51.100.1 \ --ntp-servers=216.239.35.4,216.239.35.5 \ --service-address-cidr-blocks=10.96.232.0/24 \ --pod-address-cidr-blocks=192.168.0.0/16 \ --control-plane-vip=172.16.20.61 \ --control-plane-node-port=30968 \ --ingress-vip=172.16.20.62 \ --ingress-http-node-port=32527 \ --ingress-https-node-port=30139 \ --konnectivity-server-node-port=30969
Create a node pool
You can use the following command to create a node pool:
gcloud container vmware node-pools create default-pool \
--cluster=user-cluster-1 \
--project=example-project-12345 \
--location=us-west1 \
--image-type=ubuntu_containerd \
--boot-disk-size=40 \
--cpus=8 \
--memory=8192 \
--replicas=5 \
--min-replicas=5 \
--max-replicas=10 \
--enable-load-balancer
For descriptions of the flags, see Create a node pool .
