The container engine cluster runs on top of GCE. For this recipe, we'll create a two-node cluster which will be internally managed by Kubernetes:

1. We'll create the cluster using the following command:

$ gcloud container clusters create mysite-cluster
 --scopes "cloud-platform" --num-nodes 2 --zone us-east1-c

The gcloud command automatically generates a kubeconfig entry that enables us to use kubectl on the cluster:

2. Using kubectl, verify that you have access to the created cluster:

$ kubectl get nodes

The gcloud command is used to manage resources on Google Cloud Project and kubectl is used to manage resources on the Container Engine/Kubernetes cluster.