gcloud beta container clusters

NAME

gcloud beta container clusters - deploy and teardown Google Kubernetes Engine clusters

SYNOPSIS

gcloud beta container clusters COMMAND [--location=LOCATION | --region=REGION | --zone=ZONE, -z ZONE] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

(BETA) The gcloud container clusters command group lets you deploy and teardown Google Kubernetes Engine clusters. See $ gcloud docker --help for information about deploying docker images to clusters.

FLAGS

At most one of these can be specified: --location=LOCATION Compute zone or region (e.g. us-central1-a or us-central1) for the cluster. Overrides the default compute/region or compute/zone value for this command invocation. Prefer using this flag over the --region or --zone flags. --region=REGION Compute region (e.g. us-central1) for a regional cluster. Overrides the default compute/region property value for this command invocation. --zone=ZONE, -z ZONE Compute zone (e.g. us-central1-a) for a zonal cluster. Overrides the default compute/zone property value for this command invocation.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --help.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

COMMANDS

COMMAND is one of the following:

check-autopilot-compatibility: (BETA) Check autopilot compatibility of a running cluster.
complete-control-plane-upgrade: (BETA) Complete the control plane upgrade for an existing cluster.
create: (BETA) Create a cluster for running containers.
create-auto: (BETA) Create an Autopilot cluster for running containers.
delete: (BETA) Delete an existing cluster for running containers.
describe: (BETA) Describe an existing cluster for running containers.
get-credentials: (BETA) Fetch credentials for a running cluster.
get-upgrade-info: (BETA) Get information about upgrades for existing clusters including auto upgrade status, upgrade history, upgrade targets, and end of support timelines.
list: (BETA) List existing clusters for running containers.
resize: (BETA) Resizes an existing cluster for running containers.
update: (BETA) Update cluster settings for an existing container cluster.
upgrade: (BETA) Upgrade the Kubernetes version of an existing container cluster.

NOTES

This command is currently in beta and might change without notice. These variants are also available:

gcloud container clusters

gcloud alpha container clusters

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.

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