gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials

NAME

gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials - fetch credentials for a fleet-registered cluster to be used in Connect Gateway

SYNOPSIS

gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials (MEMBERSHIP_NAME : --location=LOCATION) [GCLOUD_WIDE_FLAG …]

DESCRIPTION

gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials updates the kubeconfig file with the appropriate credentials and endpoint information to send kubectl commands to a fleet-registered and -connected cluster through the Connect Gateway service.

It takes a project, passed through by set defaults or flags. 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.

Upon success, this command will switch the current context to the target cluster if other contexts are already present in the kubeconfig file.

To force the use of Application Default Credentials (ADC) for authentication, you can set the container/use_application_default_credentials property to true:

gcloud config set container/use_application_default_credentials true

EXAMPLES

Get the Gateway kubeconfig for a globally registered cluster:

gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials my-cluster
gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials my-cluster --location=global

Get the Gateway kubeconfig for a cluster registered in us-central1:

gcloud container hub memberships get-credentials my-cluster --location=us-central1

POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS

Membership resource - The group of arguments defining a membership. 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 MEMBERSHIP_NAME 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.

MEMBERSHIP_NAME

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

To set the membership attribute:

provide the argument MEMBERSHIP_NAME on the command line.

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

--location=LOCATION

The location of the membership resource, e.g. us-central1. If not specified, attempts to automatically choose the correct region. To set the location attribute:

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

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

These variants are also available:

gcloud alpha container hub memberships get-credentials

gcloud beta container hub memberships get-credentials

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Last updated 2026-05-27 UTC.