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Mahesh Boopathi
Mahesh Boopathi

Reputation: 141

GKE master node

In GKE, when we create nodes, there will be a master node and many worker nodes will be created. I have a doubt whether master node is the one among which we created(replicas mentioned) or GKE creates master node separately. And What is the topology(eg.,mesh,star) in which gke cluster is formed ?

Upvotes: 14

Views: 7154

Answers (2)

Nani
Nani

Reputation: 853

GKE deploys a master node in a separate project managed by GCP itself. The nodes visible in your projects are only worker nodes.

If you create zonal cluster then you will have one master node, and if you create regional then there will be total 3 master nodes.

Upvotes: 1

Alioua
Alioua

Reputation: 1776

In GKE, if you create a standard cluster you will have API access to one master node, if you create a regional cluster you will have three master nodes but you will access them in One endpoint (one in each zone of the region).

GKE is a managed Kubernetes cluster, The master node is not visible among your service node you can only access it through the API only.

The default GKE configuration (topology) see the below screen

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Here is some documentation regarding Private cluster

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Upvotes: 19

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