Exploring Terraform Outputs
Explore how to define and use Terraform outputs to access Google Kubernetes Engine cluster information. Learn to manage kubeconfig creation and retrieve cluster credentials using Terraform and gcloud commands.
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Viewing the output file
We’ll retrieve the nodes of the newly created Kubernetes cluster and see what we got. But, before we do that, we need to create a kubeconfig file that will provide kubectl the information on how to access the cluster. We could do that right away with gcloud, but we’ll make it a bit more complicated.
To create kubeconfig, we need to know the name of the cluster and the region and project in which it’s running. We might have that information in our heads. But, let’s imagine that’s not the case. What if we forgot it, or didn’t pay attention before? That gives ...