Google Kubernetes Engine

Follow these instructions to prepare a GKE cluster for Istio.

1. Create a new cluster.

   $ export PROJECT_ID=`gcloud config get-value project` && \
     export M_TYPE=n1-standard-2 && \
     export ZONE=us-west2-a && \
     export CLUSTER_NAME=${PROJECT_ID}-${RANDOM} && \
     gcloud services enable container.googleapis.com && \
     gcloud container clusters create $CLUSTER_NAME \
     --cluster-version latest \
     --machine-type=$M_TYPE \
     --num-nodes 4 \
     --zone $ZONE \
     --project $PROJECT_ID
   

2. Retrieve your credentials for kubectl.

   $ gcloud container clusters get-credentials $CLUSTER_NAME \
       --zone $ZONE \
       --project $PROJECT_ID
   

3. Grant cluster administrator (admin) permissions to the current user. To create the necessary RBAC rules for Istio, the current user requires admin permissions.

   $ kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding \
       --clusterrole=cluster-admin \
       --user=$(gcloud config get-value core/account)