gcloud container aws clusters get-credentials

NAME

gcloud container aws clusters get-credentials - get credentials of an Anthos cluster on AWS

SYNOPSIS

gcloud container aws clusters get-credentials (CLUSTER : --location=LOCATION) [--private-endpoint] [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

(DEPRECATED) This command is deprecated. See https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/multi-cloud/docs/aws/deprecations/deprecation-announcement for more details. Fetch credentials for a running Anthos cluster on AWS.

This command updates a kubeconfig file with appropriate credentials and endpoint information to point kubectl at a specific Anthos cluster on AWS.

By default, credentials are written to HOME/.kube/config. You can provide an alternate path by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable. If KUBECONFIG contains multiple paths, the first one is used.

This command enables switching to a specific cluster, when working with multiple clusters. It can also be used to access a previously created cluster from a new workstation.

By default, the command will configure kubectl to automatically refresh its credentials using the same identity as the gcloud command-line tool. If you are running kubectl as part of an application, it is recommended to use application default credentials. To configure a kubeconfig file to use application default credentials, set the container/use_application_default_credentials Google Cloud CLI property to true before running the command.

See https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/kubectl for kubectl documentation.

EXAMPLES

To get credentials of a cluster named my-cluster managed in location us-west1, run:

gcloud container aws clusters get-credentials my-cluster --location=us-west1

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

Cluster resource - cluster to get credentials. The arguments in this group can be used to specify the attributes of this resource. (NOTE) Some attributes are not given arguments in this group but can be set in other ways.

To set the project attribute:

provide the argument cluster on the command line with a fully specified name;
provide the argument --project on the command line;
set the property core/project.

This must be specified.

CLUSTER

ID of the cluster or fully qualified identifier for the cluster.

To set the cluster attribute:

provide the argument cluster on the command line.

This positional argument must be specified if any of the other arguments in this group are specified.

--location=LOCATION

Google Cloud location for the cluster. To set the location attribute:

provide the argument cluster on the command line with a fully specified name;
provide the argument --location on the command line;
set the property container_aws/location.

FLAGS

--private-endpoint: If set, use private VPC for authentication.

GCLOUD WIDE FLAGS

These flags are available to all commands: --access-token-file, --account, --billing-project, --configuration, --flags-file, --flatten, --format, --help, --impersonate-service-account, --log-http, --project, --quiet, --trace-token, --user-output-enabled, --verbosity.

Run $ gcloud help for details.

NOTES

This variant is also available:

gcloud alpha container aws clusters get-credentials

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.