Configure Access to a Kubernetes Cluster

After installing the Kubernetes command line client, kubectl, you can set up the default Kubernetes configuration context that Helm uses to access the Kubernetes cluster and deploy Graph Lakehouse. The method that you use to set up the configuration context depends on the vendor that hosts the Kubernetes cluster. For information, see the configuration instructions for your vendor. See Configure Access to Multiple Clusters in the Kubernetes documentation for more general information about configuring access to clusters.

This topic provides example instructions that configure a local Linux environment to access a Kubernetes cluster hosted on the Google Cloud Platform.

1. Run the following command to set the project to the Kubernetes cloud project:

   gcloud config set project <k8s_project_name>

   For example:

   gcloud config set project cloud-kube-1111

   Updated property [core/project]

2. Run the following command to set the compute zone for the Kubernetes cluster:

   gcloud config set compute/zone <zone_name>

   For example:

   gcloud config set compute/zone us-central1

   Updated property [compute/zone]

3. To confirm that you can access the cluster, you can run the following command to view cluster details:

   gcloud container clusters list

   The command returns the information such as the name, location, number of nodes, and status of the cluster. For example:

   NAME LOCATION MASTER_VERSION MASTER_IP MACHINE_TYPE NODE_VERSION NUM_NODES STATUS cloud-k8s us-central1 1.23.17-gke.3600 10.100.10.10 n1-standard-1 1.23.17-gke.3600 27 RUNNING

4. Run the following command to fetch the credentials for the cluster:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster_name>

   For example:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials cloud-k8s

   Fetching cluster endpoint and auth data. kubeconfig entry generated for cloud-k8s.

Once access to the Kubernetes cluster is configured, see Install Helm for next steps.