Steps to Install Calibo Accelerate Orchestrator Agent in a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cluster by Using mTLS

1. Sign in to the Calibo Accelerate platform and click Configuration in the left navigation pane.

2. On the Platform Setup screen, on the Calibo Accelerate Orchestrator Agents tile, click Manage.

   

3. On the Calibo Accelerate Orchestrator Agents screen, click Add Agent.

4. On the Add Agent screen, provide the following details.

   

   Field	Description
   Cloud Provider	Select GCP.
   Communication Method	Currently, you can use the mTLS method only.
   Agent Name	Provide a unique name to the Orchestrator Agent.
   Agent ID	This is a unique ID generated by the Calibo Accelerate platform.
   Client Certificate	Upload the client certificate that you have created in the PKCS12 binary format in the Prerequisites.
   Certificate Password	Enter the password to access the client certificate.
   Agent DNS	Provide the Agent DNS for which you created the certificates in the Prerequisites.

5. Save the details. With this step, the agent is ready to be deployed in your GKE cluster.

Note:

To access your Kubernetes cluster by using the command line interface (CLI), you must install and configure kubectl, the Kubernetes command line tool.

1. After you save your configured agent on the Calibo Accelerate Orchestrator Agents screen, click the ellipsis (...) to view the agent details. On the Agent Details side drawer, you see the following Agent Installation Command.
   
   
2. Copy this command and then replace the placeholder values in the command with actual values. To understand the parameters of this command, see Using Agent Installation Command (For Agent to Be Deployed in GKE Cluster).
   
   
3. You have created the CA (Certificate Authority) certificate file (ca.crt), server certificate file (server.crt), and server certificate key file (server.key) in the prerequisites for agent installation. Run the command in your command line interface from the directory or folder where these TLS certificates are stored.

After you deploy the Orchestrator Agent in the GKE cluster, verify the agent connection from the Calibo Accelerate platform interface. Click Configuration > Calibo Accelerate Orchestrator Agents and test the connection for the agent that you deployed in the earlier step.