Cluster API overview

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The Cluster API uses Kubernetes custom resources and relies on the Kubernetes Resource Model (KRM). It manages the lifecycle of clusters in a given organization, such as installing, upgrading, and uninstalling.

To use the Cluster API, we recommend that you use the GDC console. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this API, use the following example and the full API definition to build your requests.

Service endpoint and discovery document

The API endpoint for the Cluster API is https://MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER_ENDPOINT/apis/cluster.gdc.goog/v1, where MANAGEMENT_API_SERVER_ENDPOINT is the endpoint of the Management API server.

Using the kubectl proxy command, you can access that URL in your browser or with a tool such as curl to get the discovery document for the Cluster API. The kubectl proxy command opens up a proxy to the Kubernetes API server on your local machine. Once that command is running, you can access the document at the following URL: http://127.0.0.1:8001/apis/cluster.gdc.goog/v1.

Example Cluster resource

The following is an example of a Cluster object configured as a user cluster:

apiVersion: cluster.gdc.goog/v1
kind: Cluster
metadata:
  name: user-vm-1
  namespace: platform
spec:
  clusterNetwork:
    podCIDRSize: 21
    serviceCIDRSize: 23
  initialVersion:
    kubernetesVersion: 1.27.1-gke.700
  loadBalancer:
    ingressServiceIPSize: 21
  nodePools:
  - machineTypeName: n2-standard-8-gdc
    name: worker-node-pool
    nodeCount: 3
  releaseChannel:
    channel: UNSPECIFIED