Prerequisites

Google Cloud Platform

This tutorial leverages the Google Cloud Platform to streamline provisioning of a Kubernetes cluster. Sign up for $300 in free credits.

Estimated cost to run this tutorial: $0.10 per hour ($2.39 per day).

The compute resources required for this tutorial exceed the Google Cloud Platform free tier.

Follow the Google Cloud SDK documentation to install and configure the gcloud command line utility.

Verify the Google Cloud SDK version is 218.0.0 or higher:

gcloud version

This tutorial assumes a default compute region and zone have been configured.

If you are using the gcloud command-line tool for the first time init is the easiest way to do this:

gcloud init

Otherwise:

Set the project:
```
gcloud config set project YOUR_PROJECT_ID
```
To list projects: gcloud projects list

Set a default compute region:

gcloud config set compute/region us-west1

Set a default compute zone:
```
gcloud config set compute/zone us-west1-c
```
Use the gcloud compute zones list command to view additional regions and zones.