Accessing Kubernetes API on Google Container Engine

This blog post answers the question about how to access the Kubernetes API on Google Container Engine. I'll demonstrate how to create a cluster and display the list of nodes using:

1. web browser
• create a cluster manually using the web GUI
• display the list of nodes in Kubernetes web GUI
2. command-line
• create a cluster use the gcloud CLI
• display the list of nodes using kubectl CLI
3. web API
• create a cluster using the Container Engine API
• list the nodes using the Kubernetes API

Here is the 15 minute video demonstration:

The golang code I put together for this demo is in the kubernetes-api-on-gce branch. I even made sure it builds on Travis CI. Prior to putting this video together, I installed the gcloud sdk, created a project named ctaggartcom, created a default network named default, and:

• gcloud auth login
• gcloud config set project ctaggartcom

The proxy I used was mitmproxy. It is easy to install on a Mac with:

• brew install mitmproxy