Connecting to a cluster from the Google Cloud console
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With Connect, you can use the Google Cloud console to manage your
GKE on-prem clusters. Each GKE on-prem user cluster that you create
automatically runs the Connect agent and is registered with
Connect to your project fleet—a unified way to view and manage multiple
clusters and their workloads as part of GKE Enterprise. You can find out more
about fleets and the functionality that they enable in our
Fleets guide.
Registered clusters are visible in your
GKE Enterprise Clusters page in the
Google Cloud console and can be used with GKE Enterprise components and features.
If you need to manually register a GKE on-prem cluster with Connect (for example, if you want to move the cluster's membership to a different fleet, or if you unregistered it by mistake), follow the instructions in Registering a cluster.
Logging into your cluster
To manage a registered GKE on-prem cluster from the Google Cloud console, you need to log into the cluster from the console. Doing this lets you view, monitor, debug, and manage workloads on your GKE on-prem clusters through the Google Cloud console.
Follow the instructions in logging into clusters to create the necessary roles and accounts and log in to your cluster.
What's next
Learn about multi-cluster management with
Connect.
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