Kubernetes The Hard Way

This tutorial will walk you through setting up Kubernetes the hard way. This guide is not for people looking for a fully automated command to bring up a Kubernetes cluster. If that's you then check out Google Container Engine, or the Getting Started Guides.

Target Audience

The target audience for this tutorial is someone planning to support a production Kubernetes cluster and wants to understand how everything fits together. After completing this tutorial I encourage you to automate away the manual steps presented in this guide.

Cluster Details

• Kubernetes 1.3.0
• Docker 1.11.2
• CNI Based Networking
• Secure communication between all components (etcd, control plane, workers)
• Default Service Account and Secrets

What's Missing

The resulting cluster will be missing the following items:

• Cluster add-ons
• Logging
• No Cloud Provider Integration

Labs

• Cloud Infrastructure Provisioning
• Setting up a CA and TLS Cert Generation
• Bootstrapping an H/A etcd cluster
• Bootstrapping an H/A Kubernetes Control Plane
• Bootstrapping Kubernetes Workers
• Configuring the Kubernetes Client - Remote Access
• Managing the Container Network Routes
• Smoke Test
• Cleaning Up