gcloud container

NAME
gcloud container - deploy and manage clusters of machines for running containers
SYNOPSIS
gcloud containerGROUP |COMMAND[GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]
DESCRIPTION
The gcloud container command group lets you create and manage Google KubernetesEngine containers and clusters.

Kubernetes Engine is a cluster manager and orchestration system for running yourDocker containers. Kubernetes Engine schedules your containers into the clusterand manages them automatically based on requirements you define, such as CPU andmemory.

More information on Kubernetes Engine can be found here:https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engineand detailed documentation can be found here:https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS
These flags are available to all commands:--help.

Run$gcloud help for details.

GROUPS
GROUP is one of the following:
ai
Manage AI related workloads for GKE.
attached
Manage Attached clusters for running containers.
aws
(DEPRECATED) Deploy and manage clusters of machines on AWS forrunning containers.
azure
(DEPRECATED) Deploy and manage clusters of machines on Azure forrunning containers.
bare-metal
Deploy and manage Anthos clusters on bare metal for running containers.
binauthz
Manage attestations for Binary Authorization on Google Cloud Platform.
clusters
Deploy and teardown Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.
fleet
Centrally manage features and services on all your Kubernetes clusters withfleet.
hub
Centrally manage features and services on all your Kubernetes clusters withfleet.
images
List and manipulate Google Container Registry images.
node-pools
Create and delete operations for Google Kubernetes Engine node pools.
operations
Get and list operations for Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.
subnets
Manage subnets to be used by Google Kubernetes Engine clusters.
vmware
Deploy and manage Anthos clusters on VMware for running containers.
COMMANDS
COMMAND is one of the following:
get-server-config
Get Kubernetes Engine server config.
NOTES
These variants are also available:
gcloudalphacontainer
gcloudbetacontainer

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Last updated 2025-08-13 UTC.