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Fran Arenas
Fran Arenas

Reputation: 648

Create a gke pod from a google cloud function

I want to create a google cloud function to create pods on my gke cluster. I use the python kubernetes client to create them (I don't know if there is a better way to achive this).

Normally I would use the command: gcloud container clusters get-credentials cluster_name --region=cluster_region but cloud sdk is not installed in the cloud function environment.

I've read the python api documentation and I found that it is possible to pass the path to the kubeconfig file, but I didn't found how to create that file

Upvotes: 0

Views: 821

Answers (1)

guillaume blaquiere
guillaume blaquiere

Reputation: 75715

The get credential does nothing special:

  • Check if the cluster exists
  • Check if you have the permission on the cluster
  • Create the Kube config file with your access token.

That's all.

Now, when you use the kubectl command, the access token is used and put in the Authorization: Bearer header and perform an API call to Kubernetes control plane.

Therefore, if you want to reach directly the control plane from your Cloud Functions with an API call, simply the Cloud Functions access token in the security header and that's all!

Upvotes: 2

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