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Getting started on Google Compute Engine

The example below creates a Kubernetes cluster with 4 worker node Virtual Machines and a master Virtual Machine (i.e. 5 VMs in your cluster). This cluster is set up and controlled from your workstation (or wherever you find convenient).

Before you start

If you want a simplified getting started experience and GUI for managing clusters, please consider trying Google Container Engine for hosted cluster installation and management.

If you want to use custom binaries or pure open source Kubernetes, please continue with the instructions below.

Prerequisites

  1. You need a Google Cloud Platform account with billing enabled. Visit the Google Developers Console for more details.
  2. Make sure you can start up a GCE VM from the command line. At least make sure you can do the Create an instance part of the GCE Quickstart.
  3. Make sure you have the gcloud preview command line component installed. Simply run gcloud preview at the command line - if it asks to install any components, go ahead and install them. If it simply shows help text, you're good to go.
  4. Make sure you can ssh into the VM without interactive prompts. See the Log in to the instance part of the GCE Quickstart.

Starting a Cluster

You can install a cluster with one of two one-liners:

curl -sS https://get.k8s.io | bash

or

wget -q -O - https://get.k8s.io | bash

Installing the kubernetes client on your workstation

This will leave you with a kubernetes directory on your workstation, and a running cluster.

Copy the appropriate kubectl binary to somewhere in your PATH, for example:

# OS X
sudo cp kubernetes/platforms/darwin/amd64/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

# Linux
sudo cp kubernetes/platforms/linux/amd64/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

If you run into trouble please see the section on troubleshooting, or come ask questions on IRC at #google-containers on freenode.

Getting started with your cluster

See a simple nginx example to try out your new cluster.

For more complete applications, please look in the examples directory

Tearing down the cluster

cd kubernetes
cluster/kube-down.sh

Customizing

The script above relies on Google Storage to stage the Kubernetes release. It then will start (by default) a single master VM along with 4 worker VMs. You can tweak some of these parameters by editing kubernetes/cluster/gce/config-default.sh You can view a transcript of a successful cluster creation here.

Troubleshooting

Project settings

You need to have the Google Cloud Storage API, and the Google Cloud Storage JSON API enabled. It is activated by default for new projects. Otherwise, it can be done in the Google Cloud Console. See the Google Cloud Storage JSON API Overview for more details.

SSH

If you're having trouble SSHing into your instances, ensure the GCE firewall isn't blocking port 22 to your VMs. By default, this should work but if you have edited firewall rules or created a new non-default network, you'll need to expose it: gcloud compute firewall-rules create --network=<network-name> --description "SSH allowed from anywhere" --allow tcp:22 default-ssh

Additionally, your GCE SSH key must either have no passcode or you need to be using ssh-agent.

Networking

The instances must be able to connect to each other using their private IP. The script uses the "default" network which should have a firewall rule called "default-allow-internal" which allows traffic on any port on the private IPs. If this rule is missing from the default network or if you change the network being used in cluster/config-default.sh create a new rule with the following field values:

  • Source Ranges: 10.0.0.0/8
  • Allowed Protocols and Port: tcp:1-65535;udp:1-65535;icmp