Self-managed clusters on GCP VM instances

To take the self-managed route, first create one or more VM instances in Compute Engine, GCP’s virtual machine service. You can do this in the GCP Console at https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instancesAd

Then, set up and run a Kubernetes distribution of your choice. For this example, let’s use K3s, which is yet another easy-to-deploy Kubernetes distribution.

You can set up K3s by downloading and running an install script inside the VM instance:
As with the other clouds, you’ll need to repeat this process on any VM instances that you want to use as worker nodes.
Setting up Kubernetes on GKE