[[installation-on-gke]]
= Installing Camel K on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)

This guide assumes you've already created a Kubernetes Engine cluster on https://console.cloud.google.com.

Make sure you've selected a version of Kubernetes greater than **1.11** when creating the cluster. You can create it in any region.

In the list of clusters for the current project, GKE provides a connection string that you need to execute on a shell to configure the `kubectl` command.

NOTE: the connection string contains a `--project` flag that indicates your **project ID**. You should keep that information for the last step.

After executing the connection string, if everything is installed correctly, you should be able to execute:

```
kubectl get pod
```

When the cluster is first installed, you should find that "no pods are present" in the cluster. You can proceed with the installation then.

Before installing Camel K on a fresh GKE cluster, you need to perform some extra steps to give to your account the required cluster-admin permissions.
This means executing the following command (**replacing "your-address@gmail.com" with your account email address**):

```
kubectl create clusterrolebinding user-cluster-admin-binding --clusterrole=cluster-admin --user=your-address@gmail.com
```

The command above is needed to make sure your user is able to delegate some permissions to Camel K service accounts.

You can now get the *kamel* CLI tool from the https://github.com/apache/camel-k/releases[release page]
and put it on your system path.

The last thing to do is to xref:installation/registry/gcr.adoc[configure gcr.io as registry] to host your integration image.

After doing that, you'll be ready to play with Camel K. Enjoy!
