$ gcloud container clusters create hello-clojure --cluster-version=1.9.6
Creating cluster hello-clojure...done.
Created [https://container.googleapis.com/v1/projects/core-XXXXXX/zones/us-west1-a/clusters/hello-clojure].
To inspect the contents of your cluster, go to: https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes/workload_/gcloud/us-west1-a/hello-clojure?project=core-XXXXXX
kubeconfig entry generated for hello-clojure.
NAME LOCATION MASTER_VERSION MASTER_IP MACHINE_TYPE NODE_VERSION NUM_NODES STATUS
hello-clojure us-west1-a 1.9.6-gke.0 XX.XX.XX.XX n1-standard-1 1.9.6-gke.0 3 RUNNING
You can see your progress on the GCP Kubernetes Engine Dashboard
$ gcloud container clusters get-credentials hello-clojure
Fetching cluster endpoint and auth data.
kubeconfig entry generated for hello-clojure.
$ gcloud container clusters list
NAME LOCATION MASTER_VERSION MASTER_IP MACHINE_TYPE NODE_VERSION NUM_NODES STATUS
hello-clojure us-west1-a 1.9.6-gke.0 XX.XX.XX.XX n1-standard-1 1.9.6-gke.0 3 RUNNING
$ kubectl config get-contexts
CURRENT NAME CLUSTER AUTHINFO NAMESPACE
* gke_core-XXXXXX_us-west1-a_hello-clojure gke_core-XXXXXX_us-west1-a_hello-clojure gke_core-XXXXXX_us-west1-a_hello-clojure
Next: A Minimal Webapp
If you need to take down your cluster, see Cleanup