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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 Anthos on bare metal Deploying Anthos on bare metal
Deploying Anthos on bare metal
Prerequisites
Prepare the Linux workstation machine
Deploy and configure the Layer 4 network load balancer
Creating a cluster with Anthos on bare metal
Deploying PowerFlex CSI on the Anthos cluster Deploying Anthos applications on the PowerFlex system Conclusion Appendix References

Prepare the Linux workstation machine

Prepare the Linux workstation machine

  • Complete the following instructions on the Linux workstation:

    1. Install gcloud and gsutil tools which are included in the Cloud SDK. For more information, see Installing Google Cloud SDK.
    1. Update the Cloud SDK:

    gcloud components update
    1. Log in with your Google account so that you can manage services and service accounts:

    gcloud auth login
    1. Set the default project replacing PROJECT_ID with your Google Cloud project ID:

    gcloud config set project PROJECT_ID
    1. Use gcloud to install kubectl:

    gcloud components install kubectl
    1. Configure service accounts such as the Connect-agent service account, Connect-register service account and Logging-monitoring service account to connect the cluster to Google cloud, manage, and monitor the cluster from Cloud Console. For more information, see Enabling Google services and service accounts.
    2. Enable the required Google services (servicemanagement.googleapis.com and servicecontrol.googleapis.com) in your Cloud project:

    gcloud services enable servicemanagement.googleapis.com servicecontrol.googleapis.com
    1. Create a service account to access the Cloud Storage bucket:

    gcloud iam service-accounts create baremetal-gcr
    1. Download the service account key as a JSON file:

    gcloud iam service-accounts keys create gcr.json \

      --iam-account=baremetal-gcr@PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com \

      --project=PROJECT_ID
    1. Create a directory and copy the JSON service account file to the directory:

    cd ~

    mkdir baremetal

    cd baremetal

    gcloud auth activate-service-account --key-file=gcr.json
    1. Download bmctl and make it executable:

    gsutil cp gs://anthos-baremetal-release/bmctl/1.13/linux-amd64/bmctl
    chmod +x ./bmctl
    1. Switch the gcloud active account back to your personal account:

    gcloud config set account EMAIL_ADDRESS

    where EMAIL_ADDRESS is the email address of the account gcloud should use for authentication.

    1. Verify that bmctl is installed correctly by viewing the help information:

    ./bmctl -h