This topic describes how to register and manage an external Kubernetes cluster in the Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK) console.
Prerequisites
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Resource Access Management (RAM) is activated in the RAM console. Auto Scaling (ESS) is activated in the ESS console.
- You cannot perform the following operations in the ACK console to modify a registered external kubernetes cluster: add or remove nodes, upgrade the Kubernetes version, or modify Kubernetes component parameters.
Procedure
- Create a cluster registration proxy.
- Register an external Kubernetes cluster.
Result
On the Clusters page, find cluster test-external-cluster1 and click Details in the Actions column to view basic information and connection information about the cluster.
Run the kubectl get node
command to query information about nodes in the cluster test-external-cluster1. You can use kubeconfig to connect to the registered cluster and deploy applications
in the cluster. For more information, see Use kubectl to connect to a Kubernetes cluster.
In the left-side navigation pane of the details page of the cluster, click Releases . On the Helm tab, you can use Helm to manage released applications.