Changing Permissions of Google Container Engine Cluster

Question

I have been able to successfully create a Google Container Cluster in the developers console and have deployed my app to it. This all starts up fine, however I find that I c

Answer 1

The permissions are defined by the service accounts attached to your node VMs during cluster creation (service accounts can't be changed after a VM is instantiated, so this the only time you can pick the permissions).

If you use the cloud console, click the "More" link on the create cluster page and you will see a list of permissions that you can add to the nodes in your cluster (all defaulting to off). Toggle any on that you'd like and you should see the appropriate permissions after your cluster is created.

If you use the command line to create your cluster, pass the --scopes command to gcloud container clusters create to set the appropriate service account scopes on your node VMs.