I need to deploy Kubeflowfor ML pipeline and TFX on GCP. Unfortunately I cannot use the following UI for the installation, because I need to setup manually, the Zone, Network and Subnet.

There is a nice documentation page: https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/gke/deploy/deploy-cli/

I tried with both OAuth credentials and basic authentication. I also tried to install kfctl_v0.5.1_linux.tar.gz and kfctl_v0.5.0_linux.tar.gz. I always got the following:

WARN[0036] could not open /home/user/.kube/config Error stat /home/user/.kube/config: no such file or directory  filename=“apps/group.go:188”
WARN[0036] could not load config Error: open /home/user/.kube/config: no such file or directory  filename=“apps/group.go:208"

I have kubectl installed:

kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"12+", GitVersion:"v1.12.8-dispatcher", GitCommit:"1215389331387f57594b42c5dd024a2fe27334f8", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-05-1
3T18:09:56Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.8", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

Clearly ~/.kube/config doesn't exist. Which application is suppose to create it ?

ls ~/.kube/config
ls: cannot access '/home/user/.kube/config': No such file or directory

I did the following:

ls home/user/folder/kubeflow
kfctl  kfctl_v0.5.1_linux.tar.gz


export KUBEFLOW_USERNAME=xxx
export KUBEFLOW_PASSWORD=xxx
export PATH=$PATH:/home/user/folder/kubeflow
export ZONE=europe-west1-b
export PROJECT=project
export KFAPP=kubeflow-test

from home/user/folder/kubeflow:

kfctl init ${KFAPP} --platform gcp --project ${PROJECT} --use_basic_auth -V

INFO[0014] Not skipping GCP project init, running gcpInitProject.  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1619"
WARN[0017] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0018] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0019] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0021] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0024] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0027] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
WARN[0030] batch API enabling is running: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com] (op = operations/acf.954cc3b6-f1f4-46a2-832d-596ccb5a3d5a)  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1594"
INFO[0037] batch API enabling is completed: [deploymentmanager.googleapis.com servicemanagement.googleapis.com container.googleapis.com cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com endpoints.googleapis.com file.googleapis.com ml.googleapis.com iam.googleapis.com sqladmin.googleapis.com]  filename="gcp/gcp.go:1590"
INFO[0037] reading from /home/user/folder/kubeflow/kubeflow-test/app.yaml  filename="coordinator/coordinator.go:341"
WARN[0037] could not open /home/user/.kube/config Error stat /home/user/.kube/config: no such file or directory  filename="apps/group.go:188"
WARN[0037] could not load config Error: open /home/user/.kube/config: no such file or directory  filename="apps/group.go:208"

Some file were created:

ls kubeflow-test/
app.yaml

Some check:

kubectl config view
apiVersion: v1
clusters: []
contexts: []
current-context: ""
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users: []

I also try to update kubectl

gcloud components update kubectl
You have specified individual components to update.  If you are trying
 to install new components, use:
  $ gcloud components install kubectl
Do you want to run install instead (y/N)?  y
All components are up to date.

Any idea why I don't have ~/.kube/config doesn't exist ? I try to create it manually but then I have other issue later. What should I do to create the mising configuration. Is there another recommend way than using CloudShell to deploy Kubelow with cli on GCP ?