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Chainguard Container for cluster-api-gcp-controller

Kubernetes Cluster API provider for Google Cloud Platform infrastructure management.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/cluster-api-gcp-controller:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's cluster-api-gcp-controller image is compatible with the upstream Cluster API Provider GCP. This image contains only the minimum set of dependencies needed to run the GCP infrastructure provider components.

Getting Started

The Cluster API Provider for GCP enables you to create and manage Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud Platform using Cluster API. It provides declarative APIs for provisioning and managing GCP infrastructure resources including Compute Engine instances, VPCs, and load balancers.

Prerequisites

  • A management cluster with Cluster API core components installed
  • clusterctl CLI tool
  • Google Cloud Platform account with appropriate permissions
  • GCP service account credentials configured

Installation

Initialize the GCP infrastructure provider using clusterctl:

clusterctl init --infrastructure gcp

Or manually install using the Chainguard image by applying the InfrastructureProvider resource:

kubectl apply -f - <<EOF
apiVersion: operator.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1alpha2
kind: InfrastructureProvider
metadata:
  name: gcp
  namespace: capg-system
spec:
  version: v1.10.0
  configSecret:
    name: capg-manager-bootstrap-credentials
  deployment:
    containers:
    - name: manager
      imageUrl: cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/cluster-api-gcp-controller:latest
EOF

Usage Example

Create a GCP cluster using Cluster API resources:

apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: GCPCluster
metadata:
  name: my-gcp-cluster
  namespace: default
spec:
  project: my-gcp-project-id
  region: us-central1
  network:
    name: my-cluster-network
    autoCreateSubnetworks: true
---
apiVersion: infrastructure.cluster.x-k8s.io/v1beta1
kind: GCPMachineTemplate
metadata:
  name: my-cluster-control-plane
  namespace: default
spec:
  template:
    spec:
      instanceType: e2-standard-2
      image: projects/k8s-staging-cluster-api-gcp/global/images/cluster-api-ubuntu-2004-v1-29-0
      diskSizeGb: 50
      publicIP: true

Configuration

The controller requires a GCP service account with the following IAM roles:

  • Compute Admin
  • Service Account User
  • Project IAM Admin (if using workload identity)

Create and configure the credentials secret:

kubectl create secret generic capg-manager-bootstrap-credentials \
  --from-file=credentials.json=/path/to/service-account.json \
  --namespace capg-system

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  • Apache-2.0

  • LGPL-2.1-or-later

  • MIT

  • MPL-2.0

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Compliance

A FIPS validated version of this image is available for FedRAMP compliance. STIG is included with FIPS image.


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