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title: "Add a new compute cluster to an account"
slug: "add-a-new-compute-cluster-to-an-account"
updated: 2026-04-04T02:22:39Z
published: 2026-04-04T02:22:47Z
canonical: "support.fortanix.com/add-a-new-compute-cluster-to-an-account"
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# Add a new compute cluster to an account

Post/v1/clusters

Add a new compute cluster to an account

SecurityAPI Key: bearerTokenHeader parameter nameAuthentication

A JWT bearer token to be passed once authenticated.

Body parameters

request to add compute clusters

<select class='api-response-data' aria-label='Media type'><option value='a3a2e956-9f9a-4e44-b7b0-89ba366d8b86'>application/json</option>
</select>Expand Allobject  

Request body for creating a compute cluster. Exactly one of kubernetes or aci field must be set.

namestring    Required
descriptionstring    Required
kubernetesobject (KubernetesClusterRequest)  kubeconfigobject (KubeConfig)  kindstring    
apiVersionstring    
clusters Array of object (KubeConfigClusterRef)   Requiredobject  namestring    Required
clusterobject (KubeConfigCluster)  Requiredserverstring    Required
insecure-skip-tls-verifyboolean    
certificate-authority-datastring    

users Array of object (KubeConfigUserRef)   Requiredobject  namestring    Required
userobject (KubeConfigUser)  Requiredtokenstring    
client-certificate-datastring    
client-key-datastring    
execobject (ExecConfig)  

This struct is built to match ExecConfig from the rust kube-client crate.

api_versionstring    
commandstring    Required
args Array of string   string    

contexts Array of object (KubeConfigContextRef)   Requiredobject  namestring    Required
contextobject (KubeConfigContext)  Requiredclusterstring    Required
userstring    Required
namespacestring    

current-contextstring    

aciobject (AciClusterRequest)  subscriptionstring  (uuid)    Required
resource_groupstring    Required
deployment_locationstring    
secretsobject (AciComputeSecrets)  Requiredservice_principalobject (ServicePrincipal)  app_idstring    Required

Service principal app id.

tenantstring    Required

Service principal tenant id.

passwordstring    Required

Service principal app passcode.

Responses200

Cluster information

<select class='api-response-data' aria-label='Media type'><option value='22e0ba4f-3236-44cf-b667-9d13be01fede'>application/json</option>
</select>Expand Allobject  cluster_idstring  (uuid)    
namestring    
descriptionstring    
created_bystring  (uuid)    
kubernetesobject (KubernetesClusterInfo)  clusterstring    
serverstring    
userstring    

aciobject (AciClusterInfo)  subscriptionstring  (uuid)    
resource_groupstring    
deployment_locationstring