%% date:: [[2023-10-13]] parent:: %% # [[Google Kubernetes Engine]] [site](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/) Google's [[Kubernetes]] implementation. GKE is similar to [[AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service]]. ## [[gcloud CLI]] The [[Google Cloud Platform|GCloud]] [[CLI]] is a tool that allows authentication with GCP for local access to create, manage, deploy, and modify clusters on GCP. This is the recommended way to interact with GKE clusters. ## [[How to set up kubectl with GKE]] [[kubectl]] is a local utility for managing Kubernetes clusters, but you can authenticate with [[Google Cloud Platform|GCP]] so that you can use kubectl to manage your GKE clusters instead.