Introduction

8 May 2023 · Read time 1 min

Overview - Google GKE Installation

This guide covers how to Altinity.Cloud Anywhere to install a Kubernetes ClickHouse environment on the Google Cloud Platform Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

This guide contains the following sections:

• What Accounts do you need?
• Altinity Recommendations for Google GKE
• Software Requirements
• Installing Google Components
• Installing GKE Kubernetes Cluster - Use the terminal to create a Google GKE Kubernetes instance
• Connection Setup wizard
• Create an Altinity.Cloud ClickHouse Cluster
• Creating a ClickHouse Database, tables and run queries in the ACM and from the terminal
• Rescale your Google GKE cluster using the ACM

What Accounts do you need?

This page assume you have an Altinity.Cloud account and have requested an Anywhere environment, and have a developer Google Console environment set up.

Google Accounts

• Google Console Home - Project ID (See: How to set your Google Project ID)
• Google Kubernetes Engine Console Your GKE Cluster
• VM Instances Compute Engine View installed nodes

Altinity Accounts

• Altinity.Cloud Anywhere - Free Trial (Login: Altinity Cloud Manager )

Google API Permissions

In the Google Console, you must ENABLE the following SDKs for your project:

• Compute Engine API
• Kubernetes Engine API

Software Requirements

As a client computer (or cloud machine instance) is being used from the terminal to perform the installation instructions on this page, the following software items must first be installed and various configurations completed.

For the terminal

• Terminal (SSH) with certificate to log into the client computer
• Google Cloud SDK and command-line tools (CLI) installed
• AltinityCloud-Connect - [binary] is installed