Kubeadm

Introduction K8s lifecycle is something people are still struggling with, despite amazing tools out there like kubeadm which take care of the K8s setup itself, we are still lacking something fundamental - they day-0 setup. Who/what actually creates the VMs and installs the packages on them so we can get to the stage that we can use kubeadm? Typically it’s up to the user, and as such can vary wildly - so how can that experience be improved, and even better - totally automated and declarative....

Intro In the last installment we created an Ubuntu 18.04 LTS image to use to clone VMs from for spinning up our K8s nodes, we then cloned four VMs out, one as the master and three to be used as workers. This time we are going to step through installing all the necessary K8s components on each of the nodes (kubeadm, kubectl and kubelet), the container runtime (Docker) and configuring the vSphere Cloud Provider for Kubernetes using kubeadm to bootstrap the cluster....