End of Sale Notice:

Commercial support for NGINX Service Mesh is available to customers who currently have active NGINX Microservices Bundle subscriptions. F5 NGINX announced the End of Sale (EoS) for the NGINX Microservices Bundles as of July 1, 2023.

See our End of Sale announcement for more details.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Learn how to set up Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) for use with F5 NGINX Service Mesh.

Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is a hosted Kubernetes solution created by Google. To use GKE with F5 NGINX Service Mesh, your Kubernetes user account has to have the ClusterAdmin role.

Warning:
These resources give NGINX Service Mesh administrator access to your cluster. This allows NGINX Service Mesh to access resources across all namespaces in your Kubernetes cluster.

To create a ClusterRole and ClusterRoleBinding for NGINX Service Mesh, run the kubectl command shown below:

kubectl create clusterrolebinding cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=$(gcloud config  get-value core/account)

Regardless of which Kubernetes version you are using, if you are installing NGINX Service Mesh v1.6 or greater, you’ll also need to install the gke-gcloud-auth-plugin. This is because nginx-meshctl uses Kubernetes v1.25+ libraries internally.

You can now deploy NGINX Service Mesh on your GKE cluster.