Version 1.12. This version is no longer supported. For information about how to upgrade to version 1.13, see Upgrading Anthos on bare metal in the 1.13 documentation. For more information about supported and unsupported versions, see the Version history page in the latest documentation.
The admin workstation is where you download the bmctl command-line interface
(CLI) tool and install the Google Cloud CLI. The admin workstation hosts
configuration files to provision clusters during installation and kubectl for
interacting with provisioned clusters post-installation. The admin workstation
must meet the following prerequisites:
Operating system is the same supported Linux distribution running on the
cluster node machines. For more information, see, Select your operating
system.
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