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title: "101 - Creating Kubernetes cluster"
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## Objective: Manually creating a Kubernetes cluster to use with Auto DevOps in GitLab.
You will need Kubernetes cluster up and running in order to use GitLab Auto DevOps feature.
This is a step by step guide to help you to manually create a Kubernetes cluster in Google Cloud Platform.
More details [Auto DevOps](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/topics/autodevops/)
#### Preparation
You need a Google Cloud Platform account, GitLab employees will have this. Ensure you are logged in with your GitLab account.
### Steps to create Kubernetes cluster
| **Step** | **What it looks like** |
| 1. Open a browser and login to [Google Kubernetes Engine](https://console.cloud.google.com/kubernetes) |
| 2. GitLab employees - Sign-in using your GitLab email. | |
| 3. GitLab employees should use the gitlab-demos project. Others should select or create a project to work in.| |
| 4. Under COMPUTE on the side bar select Kubernetes Engine -> Clusters.| |
| 5. Click CREATE CLUSTER. | |
| 6. Set name for your cluster.
GitLab Strategic Marketing employees, the naming convention is sm_\, or, if you are in the Product Marketing sub-group use pmm_\, or for the Technical Marketing group use tmm_\. Keep the overall name short (up to 16 chars).
Set the number of nodes to 3, and expand the page for additional settings.| |
| 7. GitLab employees should select the 'demonet' network in Networking. Others should select or create network. | |
| 8. Enable legacy authorization. | |
| 9. You are ready to create the cluster, click Create. | |
| 10. It will take a few minutes to create the cluster, once it is created, you will see your just created cluster on the list.| |
| 11. Now you are ready to integrate your GitLab project with Kuberenetes, and use the Auto DevOps feature.
| 12. Cleanup steps PLACEHOLDER ||