This module offers a way to create and manage Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Standard clusters. With its sensible default settings based on best practices and authors' experience as Google Cloud practitioners, the module accommodates for many common use cases out-of-the-box, without having to rely on verbose configuration.
Important
This module should be used together with the gke-nodepool
module because the default node pool is deleted upon cluster creation and cannot be re-created.
This example shows how to create a zonal GKE cluster in Standard mode.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {
pods = "pods"
services = "services"
}
master_authorized_ranges = {
internal-vms = "10.0.0.0/8"
}
master_ipv4_cidr_block = "192.168.0.0/28"
}
max_pods_per_node = 32
private_cluster_config = {
enable_private_endpoint = true
master_global_access = false
}
labels = {
environment = "dev"
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=basic.yaml
This example shows how to create a zonal GKE Cluster with Dataplane V2 enabled.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-dataplane-v2"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {} # use default names "pods" and "services"
master_authorized_ranges = {
internal-vms = "10.0.0.0/8"
}
master_ipv4_cidr_block = "192.168.0.0/28"
}
private_cluster_config = {
enable_private_endpoint = true
master_global_access = false
}
enable_features = {
dataplane_v2 = true
workload_identity = true
}
labels = {
environment = "dev"
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=dataplane-v2.yaml
This example shows you how to control which logs are sent from your GKE cluster to Cloud Logging.
When you create a new GKE cluster, Cloud Operations for GKE integration with Cloud Logging is enabled by default and System logs are collected. You can enable collection of several other types of logs. The following example enables collection of all optional logs.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {}
}
logging_config = {
enable_workloads_logs = true
enable_api_server_logs = true
enable_scheduler_logs = true
enable_controller_manager_logs = true
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=logging-config-enable-all.yaml
This example shows how to configure collection of Kubernetes control plane metrics. These metrics are optional and are not collected by default.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {} # use default names "pods" and "services"
}
monitoring_config = {
enable_api_server_metrics = true
enable_controller_manager_metrics = true
enable_scheduler_metrics = true
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=monitoring-config-control-plane.yaml
The next example shows how to configure collection of kube state metrics. These metrics are optional and are not collected by default.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {} # use default names "pods" and "services"
}
monitoring_config = {
enable_daemonset_metrics = true
enable_deployment_metrics = true
enable_hpa_metrics = true
enable_pod_metrics = true
enable_statefulset_metrics = true
enable_storage_metrics = true
# Kube state metrics collection requires Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus,
# which is enabled by default.
# enable_managed_prometheus = true
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=monitoring-config-kube-state.yaml
The control plane metrics and kube state metrics collection can be configured in a single monitoring_config
block.
Warning
If you've disabled Cloud Logging or Cloud Monitoring, GKE customer support is offered on a best-effort basis and might require additional effort from your engineering team.
This example shows how to fully disable logs collection on a zonal GKE Standard cluster. This is not recommended.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {}
}
logging_config = {
enable_system_logs = false
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=logging-config-disable-all.yaml
The next example shows how to fully disable metrics collection on a zonal GKE Standard cluster. This is not recommended.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = "myproject"
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {}
}
monitoring_config = {
enable_system_metrics = false
enable_managed_prometheus = false
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=monitoring-config-disable-all.yaml
This example shows how to use Cloud DNS as a Kubernetes DNS provider for GKE Standard clusters.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = var.project_id
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {}
}
enable_features = {
dns = {
provider = "CLOUD_DNS"
scope = "CLUSTER_SCOPE"
domain = "gke.local"
}
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1 inventory=dns.yaml
Note
Although Backup for GKE can be enabled as an add-on when configuring your GKE clusters, it is a separate service from GKE.
Backup for GKE is a service for backing up and restoring workloads in GKE clusters. It has two components:
- A Google Cloud API that serves as the control plane for the service.
- A GKE add-on (the Backup for GKE agent) that must be enabled in each cluster for which you wish to perform backup and restore operations.
This example shows how to enable Backup for GKE on a new zonal GKE Standard cluster and plan a set of backups.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = var.project_id
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_names = {}
}
backup_configs = {
enable_backup_agent = true
backup_plans = {
"backup-1" = {
region = "europe-west-2"
schedule = "0 9 * * 1"
}
}
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=2 inventory=backup.yaml
You can use var.vpc_config.secondary_range_blocks
to let GKE create new secondary ranges for the cluster. The example below reserves an available /14 block for pods and a /20 for services.
module "cluster-1" {
source = "./fabric/modules/gke-cluster-standard"
project_id = var.project_id
name = "cluster-1"
location = "europe-west1-b"
vpc_config = {
network = var.vpc.self_link
subnetwork = var.subnet.self_link
secondary_range_blocks = {
pods = ""
services = "/20" # can be an empty string as well
}
}
}
# tftest modules=1 resources=1
name | description | type | required | default |
---|---|---|---|---|
location | Cluster zone or region. | string |
✓ | |
name | Cluster name. | string |
✓ | |
project_id | Cluster project id. | string |
✓ | |
vpc_config | VPC-level configuration. | object({…}) |
✓ | |
backup_configs | Configuration for Backup for GKE. | object({…}) |
{} |
|
cluster_autoscaling | Enable and configure limits for Node Auto-Provisioning with Cluster Autoscaler. | object({…}) |
null |
|
description | Cluster description. | string |
null |
|
enable_addons | Addons enabled in the cluster (true means enabled). | object({…}) |
{…} |
|
enable_features | Enable cluster-level features. Certain features allow configuration. | object({…}) |
{…} |
|
issue_client_certificate | Enable issuing client certificate. | bool |
false |
|
labels | Cluster resource labels. | map(string) |
null |
|
logging_config | Logging configuration. | object({…}) |
{} |
|
maintenance_config | Maintenance window configuration. | object({…}) |
{…} |
|
max_pods_per_node | Maximum number of pods per node in this cluster. | number |
110 |
|
min_master_version | Minimum version of the master, defaults to the version of the most recent official release. | string |
null |
|
monitoring_config | Monitoring configuration. Google Cloud Managed Service for Prometheus is enabled by default. | object({…}) |
{} |
|
node_locations | Zones in which the cluster's nodes are located. | list(string) |
[] |
|
private_cluster_config | Private cluster configuration. | object({…}) |
null |
|
release_channel | Release channel for GKE upgrades. | string |
null |
|
tags | Network tags applied to nodes. | list(string) |
null |
name | description | sensitive |
---|---|---|
ca_certificate | Public certificate of the cluster (base64-encoded). | ✓ |
cluster | Cluster resource. | ✓ |
endpoint | Cluster endpoint. | |
id | FUlly qualified cluster id. | |
location | Cluster location. | |
master_version | Master version. | |
name | Cluster name. | |
notifications | GKE PubSub notifications topic. | |
self_link | Cluster self link. | ✓ |
workload_identity_pool | Workload identity pool. |