How to connect to the Roundtable GKE cluster from the web or kubectl

IAM membership

Before you can directly access Roundtable’s GKE cluster, you need to be a member of the sqre Google Cloud Platform project. SQuaRE team members generally have the Owner role. Existing team members can add and edit project members from the IAM dashboard: https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/iam?project=plasma-geode-127520

The GKE console

The URL for the GKE dashboard is https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/clusters/details/us-central1-a/roundtable?project=plasma-geode-127520.

From the console you can view and edit the cluster configuration. Generally you will use Argo CD, at https://cd.roundtable.lsst.codes, to deploy and inspect applications.

From kubectl

To connect to the Roundtable cluster You can use the kubectl command-line tool to access the Roundtable cluster. Follow Google’s Configuring cluster access for kubectl page. Briefly, the steps are:

1. Install the Cloud SDK.

2. Set the project:

   gcloud config set project plasma-geode-127520
   

3. Get credentials for the Roundtable cluster, creating a context in kubectl:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials roundtable
   

4. Check you access:

   kubectl -n argocd get pods
   

   You should see a listing of pods.