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Google Cloud's Anthos Solution with Bare Metal and VMware on PowerFlex Family

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Deploying Anthos on bare metal
Deploying Anthos on bare metal Prerequisites Prepare Linux administration machine Deploy and Configure Layer 4 network load balancer Creating cluster with Anthos on bare metal

Prepare Linux administration machine

  • Complete the following instructions to configure the Linux administration machine:

    1. Install gcloud and gsutil tools which are included in the Cloud SDK. For detailed 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. Replace 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 like 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 detailed 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 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 it.

    cd ~

    mkdir baremetal

    cd baremetal

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

    bmctl, is a utility to streamline the creation of Anthos clusters on bare metal. This utility automates the setting up of Google service accounts and API's which are required to setup the Anthos clusters on bare metal.

    gsutil cp gs://anthos-baremetal-release/bmctl/0.5.0-gke.2/linux/bmctl .

    chmod a+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 if bmctl is installed correctly by viewing the help information.

    ./bmctl -h