I have created a free account on GCP as also my first cluster.
I want to deploy istio on my GKE cluster, so I am following the official instructions.
At some point, the instructions indicate that I should
Ensure that the Google Kubernetes Engine API is enabled for your project (also found by navigating to “APIs & Services” -> “Dashboard” in the navigation bar)
What is that supposed to mean? Isn't the API already active since I have created and I am running a cluster?
How can a cluster be running without the API being enabled?
Those information how to install Istio on GKE - described "Istio instalation on GKE add-on".
If you are interested with the instructions how to install Istio manually you can find instructions from google here.
To verify disable/enable API for GKE, please run:
APIs & Services
type:
Kubernetes Engine API
This overview provide more information about this api.
Enabling GKE API is the prerequisite for running GKE. If you already run GKE then you can skip this part.
You can enable Istio as a part of GKE cluster creation. Here is the good instruction from Google: https://cloud.google.com/istio/docs/istio-on-gke/installing