Add Google GKE clusters

This page contains brief instructions for connecting to a Google GKE cluster.

Prerequisites

Before you start, ensure that you have:

• Account on Google Cloud
• Project on Google Cloud
• Sufficient IAM permissions on the project
• kubectl
• Google Cloud SDK

Contact the Google Cloud administrator of your organization for details.

Steps

1. Log in to the gcloud CLI:

   gcloud auth login
   

2. Set your Google Cloud project:

   gcloud config set project <project-id>
   

3. Get cluster credentials:

   gcloud container clusters get-credentials <cluster-name> --zone <zone> --project <project-id>
   

After completing these steps, the GKE cluster is added to you local kubeconfig file. Then you can open Lens Desktop, and view it in Kubernetes Clusters > Local Kubeconfigs.