github.com/openshift/installer@v1.4.17/docs/user/gcp/install.md (about) 1 # Cluster Installation 2 3 At this point, you are ready to perform the OpenShift installation. 4 You have two choices for installing your cluster on GCP, installer-provided infrastructure or user-provided infrastructure. 5 See below for an example of an installer-provided infrastructure install. 6 7 To see a guided example of a user-provided infrastructure install, please see [Install: User-Provided Infrastructure](install_upi.md) 8 9 ## Example: Installer-Provided Infrastructure 10 11 The steps for performing an IPI-based install are outlined [here][cloud-install]. Following this guide you may begin at 12 Step 3: Download the Installer. 13 14 ### Create Configuration 15 16 ```console 17 [~]$ openshift-install create install-config 18 ? SSH Public Key /home/user_id/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 19 ? Platform gcp 20 ? Project ID my_gcp_project 21 ? Region us-east1 22 ? Base Domain example.com 23 ? Cluster Name mycluster 24 ? Pull Secret [? for help] ********************************************************** 25 ``` 26 27 ### Create Cluster 28 29 ```console 30 [~]$ openshift-install create cluster 31 32 INFO Consuming Install Config from target directory 33 INFO Creating infrastructure resources... 34 INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the Kubernetes API at https://api.mycluster.example.com:6443... 35 INFO API v1.14.0+37982ca up 36 INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for bootstrapping to complete... 37 INFO Destroying the bootstrap resources... 38 INFO Waiting up to 30m0s for the cluster at https://api.mycluster.example.com:6443 to initialize... 39 INFO Waiting up to 10m0s for the openshift-console route to be created... 40 INFO Install complete! 41 INFO To access the cluster as the system:admin user when using 'oc', run 42 export KUBECONFIG=/home/user/auth/kubeconfig 43 INFO Access the OpenShift web-console here: https://console-openshift-console.apps.mycluster.example.com 44 INFO Login to the console with user: kubeadmin, password: 5char-5char-5char-5char 45 ``` 46 47 ### Running Cluster 48 49 In your GCP project, there will be a new private DNS zone (for internal lookups) 50 51 There will be six running VM instances in the Project. 52 53 The nodes within the Virtual Network utilize the internal DNS and use the Router and External API load balancers. External/Internet 54 access to the cluster use the Router and External API load balancers. Compute instances are spread equally across all running availability 55 zones for the region. 56 57 The OpenShift console is available via the kubeadmin login provided by the installer. 58 59 ![OpenShift web console](images/install_console.png) 60 61 [cloud-install]: https://console.redhat.com/openshift/create