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After you create a cluster and node pool, you can view a cluster's status with
the Google Cloud CLI or the Google Cloud console. To view the cluster's status,
choose if you are using the Google Cloud CLI or Google Cloud console and follow these
steps:
gcloud
Use the gcloud container aws clusters describe command to get details
about your cluster:
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