Stay organized with collections
Save and categorize content based on your preferences.
The GKE on-prem documentation provides an initial
installation journey
that makes several choices to keep the experience easy and straightforward.
When you complete the initial installation journey, you have an admin cluster
and a small user cluster.
This section of the documentation has a collection of advanced topics related to
setting up your vSphere environment and installing GKE on-prem.
For example, in the initial installation journey, you create a user cluster that
has three nodes. Given that the cluster has only three nodes, the documentation
can list simple CPU, RAM, and storage requirements for your vSphere environment.
Going forward, you might want to create a user cluster that has more than three
nodes. In that case, you should read CPU, RAM, and storage
requirements,
which gives detailed instructions on how to calculate your resource requirements
depending on your cluster size and the types of workloads you intend to run.
The initial installation journey used the F5 BIG-IP load balancer along with
integrated load balancing mode. For an overview of load balancing modes and
instructions on how to manually configure some alternatives to F5 BIG-IP, see
Setting up your load
balancer.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-03-05 UTC."],[[["The initial GKE on-prem installation process creates an admin cluster and a small, three-node user cluster for a simplified setup."],["Advanced configurations, such as creating user clusters with more than three nodes, require referring to the detailed resource requirements documentation for CPU, RAM, and storage."],["While the initial installation utilizes F5 BIG-IP with integrated load balancing, the documentation also covers alternative load balancing modes and manual configuration options."],["Instructions for using OpenID Connect for user cluster client authentication are provided in the \"Authenticating with OIDC\" section."],["This documentation contains a section on using either static IPs or DHCP to configure and install GKE on-prem."]]],[]]
