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# Configure cloud provider

The next step is to select and configure the cloud platforms where you want to deploy the applications. Supported providers are as follows:

* App Engine 
* Amazon Web Services 
* Azure 
* Cloud Foundry 
* DC/OS 
* Google Compute Engine 
* Kubernetes
* Oracle

You must first set up the cloud provider for the environment. We'll use **Kubernetes** in this example. After that, you'll need to add a Spinnaker account.

### **Configure Kubernetes:**

**Prerequisites:**

* **A kubeconfig file**: The kubeconfig file authenticates Spinnaker against the cluster. After authentication, read/write access to the resources is granted.
* **kubectl CLI tool:** Spinnaker depends on kubectl to manage all API access. Along with Spinnaker, it's installed.

**Adding an Account:**

A Spinnaker account always maps to the credential that authenticates the Kubernetes cluster.

Follow the steps below to add an account:

1. First, enable the provider using the command below:

   ```
   hal config provider kubernetes enable
   ```
2. Add the account using the command below:

   ```
   CONTEXT=$(kubectl config current-context)
   hal config provider kubernetes account add my-k8s-account \
    --context $CONTEXT
   ```

Refer to the image below (This image is only an example).

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In the hal config file it will be updated as shown in the image below:

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