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-It’s now time to deploy your own containerized application to the Kubernetes cluster!
+It’s now time to deploy your own containerized application to the Kubernetes cluster! Please ensure that you have [configured](https://cloud.google.com/container-engine/docs/before-you-begin#optional_set_gcloud_defaults) `kubectl` to use the cluster you just created.
 
 ## Create your pod