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Google Cloud Anthos on Dell PowerFlex
Executive summary Introduction Product overview Anthos on PowerFlex Anthos on VMware Deploying Anthos on VMware
Deploying Anthos on VMware
Prerequisites
Prepare vCenter
Deploy and configure the network load balancer
Deploy Anthos GKE on-prem admin VM on PowerFlex
Create Anthos GKE on-prem admin and user cluster on PowerFlex
Anthos on bare metal Deploying Anthos on bare metal Deploying PowerFlex CSI on the Anthos cluster Deploying Anthos applications on the PowerFlex system Conclusion Appendix References

Create Anthos GKE on-prem admin and user cluster on PowerFlex

Create Anthos GKE on-prem admin and user cluster on PowerFlex

  • To create the admin and user cluster:

    1. SSH to the admin workstation from the deployment workstation.
    1. For the admin cluster, modify the admin-cluster.yaml file to match your environment-specific variable. For more information, see Admin cluster configuration file.
    2. Validate the admin cluster configuration file by running the following command:

    gkectl check-config --config admin-cluster.yaml

    1. Initialize your vSphere environment by running the following command:

    gkectl prepare --config admin-cluster.yaml --skip-validation-all

    1. Create the admin cluster by running the following command:

    gkectl create admin --config admin-cluster.yaml

    1. For the user cluster, modify the user-cluster.yaml file to match your environment-specific variable. For more information, see User cluster configuration file.
    2. Validate the user cluster configuration file by running the following command:

    gkectl check-config --kubeconfig [ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG] --config user-cluster.yaml

    where, [ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG] is the path of the kubeconfig file for your admin cluster.

    1. Create the user cluster by running the following command:

    gkectl create cluster --kubeconfig [ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG] --config user-cluster.yaml

    1. Verify the successful creation of the admin cluster by running the following command:

    kubectl get nodes --kubeconfig [ADMIN_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG]

    1. Verify the successful creation of the user cluster by running the following command:

    kubectl get nodes --kubeconfig [USER_CLUSTER_KUBECONFIG]

    Result: The user cluster is registered with Google Cloud after the cluster is created successfully. 

    1. To verify the result, log in to Google cloud > Kubernetes Engine > Clusters:

    Figure 9: User cluster registered with GCP after successful deployment

    1. Select a cluster and click Login. You are prompted to choose the method to use for authentication of the cluster.
    • Token.
    • Basic authentication.
    • Authenticate with Identity Provider configured for the cluster.

    Select the method of your choice and log in to view the cluster overview.

    For more information, see Logging in to a cluster from Cloud Console.

    1. To see the cluster details, select Kubernetes cluster details > Nodes.

    Figure 10: Kubernetes cluster node details in GCP

    Note: The Kubernetes cluster nodes for Anthos on-premises clusters are running as vSphere VMs on the PowerFlex system.

    1. (Optional) Verify that the Kubernetes cluster nodes in the GCP console have the same names as the worker node VMs running on PowerFlex.

    Figure 11: Kubernetes cluster nodes in VMware vCenter

    For more information, see Creating an admin cluster and Creating a user clusters.