gcloud container clusters get-credentials - fetch credentials for a running cluster
gcloud container clusters get-credentials NAME [--internal-ip] [--region=REGION | --zone=ZONE, -z ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG ...]
gcloud container clusters get-credentials updates a kubeconfig file with appropriate credentials and endpoint information to point kubectl at a specific cluster in Google Kubernetes Engine.
It takes a project and a zone as parameters, passed through by set defaults or flags. By default, credentials are written to HOME/.kube/config. You can provide an alternate path by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable. If KUBECONFIG contains multiple paths, the first one is used.
This command enables switching to a specific cluster, when working with multiple clusters. It can also be used to access a previously created cluster from a new workstation.
By default, gcloud container clusters get-credentials will configure kubectl to automatically refresh its credentials using the same identity as gcloud. If you are running kubectl as part of an application, it is recommended to use application default credentials https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication/production. To configure a kubeconfig file to use application default credentials, set the container/use_application_default_credentials Cloud SDK property https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/properties to true before running gcloud container clusters get-credentials
See https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/kubectl for kubectl documentation.
To switch to working on your cluster 'sample-cluster', run:
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials sample-cluster \ --zone=us-central1-f
- NAME
Name of the cluster to get credentials for. Overrides the default container/cluster property value for this command invocation.
- --internal-ip
Whether to use the internal IP address of the cluster endpoint.
- At most one of these can be specified:
- --region=REGION
Compute region (e.g. us-central1) for the cluster.
- --zone=ZONE, -z ZONE
Compute zone (e.g. us-central1-a) for the cluster. Overrides the default compute/zone property value for this command invocation.
These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.
Run $ gcloud help for details.
These variants are also available:
$ gcloud alpha container clusters get-credentials
$ gcloud beta container clusters get-credentials