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Provisioning Compute Resources

Kubernetes requires a set of machines to host the Kubernetes control plane and the worker nodes where containers are ultimately run. In this lab you will provision the compute resources required for running a secure and highly available Kubernetes cluster.

Networking

The Kubernetes networking model assumes a flat network in which containers and nodes can communicate with each other. In cases where this is not desired network policies can limit how groups of containers are allowed to communicate with each other and external network endpoints.

Setting up network policies is out of scope for this tutorial.

Virtual Network

In this section Virtual Network will be setup to host the Kubernetes cluster.

Open Virtual Machine Manager, and from menu, go to Edit -> Connection Details.
Go to Virtual Networks tab, and click the plus(+) button at the left lower side of the window.
Type kubernetes-nw in the textbox named Network Name, and click Forward.
Type 10.240.0.0/24 in the textbox named Network, type 10.240.0.2 in the textbox named Start, type 10.240.0.254 in the textbox named end, and click Forward.
You will be asked whether enabling IPv6 or not. Don't check the checkbox, and click Forward.
Click the radiobutton named Forwarding to physical network, type kubernetes-nw.com in the textbox named DNS Domain Name, and click Finish.
Click the network created above, and take a note of the value of Device. This value will be needed when setting routing.

Kubernetes Public IP Address

(There should be something about HAProxy)

Virtual Machines

The virtual machines in this lab will be provisioned using Ubuntu Server 16.04. Each virtual machines will be provisioned with a fixed private IP address to simplify the Kubernetes bootstrapping process.

Base Image

As installing OS to all virtual machines manually is time-consuming, using a base image where OS is already installed is very handy.

In this tutorial, ubuntu-xenial.qcow2 is assumed to be the base image.

Kubernetes Controllers

Create three virtual instances which will host the Kubernetes control plane:

Open a terminal, or login to the linux server, and move to the directory where the base image exists (maybe /var/lib/libvirt/images?).
Create images for Kubernetes controllers backed by the base image:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu-xenial.qcow -b ubuntu-xenial-controller0.qcow2
qemu-img create -f qcow2 ubuntu-xenial.qcow -b ubuntu-xenial-controller0.qcow2

(You should repeat from 3. to 7. three times)

Open Virtual Machine Manager, and click the icon named 'Create a new virtual machine'.
Check the radiobutton named Importing existing disk image, and click Forward
Click Browse, click the n-th controller image, click Choose Volume, choose the operating system (Ubuntu 16.04 in this case), and click Forward.
Type 512 in the textbox named Memory, and click Forward.
Type controller-n, click Network selection, select the network kubernetes-nw, and click Finish.

(Todo: Setup Network Interface)

Kubernetes Workers

Each worker instance requires a pod subnet allocation from the Kubernetes cluster CIDR range. The pod subnet allocation will be used to configure container networking in a later exercise. The pod-cidr instance metadata will be used to expose pod subnet allocations to compute instances at runtime.

The Kubernetes cluster CIDR range is defined by the Controller Manager's --cluster-cidr flag. In this tutorial the cluster CIDR range will be set to 10.200.0.0/16, which supports 254 subnets.

Create three compute instances which will host the Kubernetes worker nodes:

for i in 0 1 2; do
  gcloud compute instances create worker-${i} \
    --async \
    --boot-disk-size 200GB \
    --can-ip-forward \
    --image-family ubuntu-1804-lts \
    --image-project ubuntu-os-cloud \
    --machine-type n1-standard-1 \
    --metadata pod-cidr=10.200.${i}.0/24 \
    --private-network-ip 10.240.0.2${i} \
    --scopes compute-rw,storage-ro,service-management,service-control,logging-write,monitoring \
    --subnet kubernetes \
    --tags kubernetes-the-hard-way,worker
done

Verification

List the compute instances in your default compute zone:

gcloud compute instances list

output

NAME          ZONE        MACHINE_TYPE   PREEMPTIBLE  INTERNAL_IP  EXTERNAL_IP     STATUS
controller-0  us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.10  XX.XXX.XXX.XXX  RUNNING
controller-1  us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.11  XX.XXX.X.XX     RUNNING
controller-2  us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.12  XX.XXX.XXX.XX   RUNNING
worker-0      us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.20  XXX.XXX.XXX.XX  RUNNING
worker-1      us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.21  XX.XXX.XX.XXX   RUNNING
worker-2      us-west1-c  n1-standard-1               10.240.0.22  XXX.XXX.XX.XX   RUNNING

Configuring SSH Access

SSH will be used to configure the controller and worker instances. When connecting to compute instances for the first time SSH keys will be generated for you and stored in the project or instance metadata as describe in the connecting to instances documentation.

Test SSH access to the controller-0 compute instances:

gcloud compute ssh controller-0

If this is your first time connecting to a compute instance SSH keys will be generated for you. Enter a passphrase at the prompt to continue:

WARNING: The public SSH key file for gcloud does not exist.
WARNING: The private SSH key file for gcloud does not exist.
WARNING: You do not have an SSH key for gcloud.
WARNING: SSH keygen will be executed to generate a key.
Generating public/private rsa key pair.
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:

At this point the generated SSH keys will be uploaded and stored in your project:

Your identification has been saved in /home/$USER/.ssh/google_compute_engine.
Your public key has been saved in /home/$USER/.ssh/google_compute_engine.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:nz1i8jHmgQuGt+WscqP5SeIaSy5wyIJeL71MuV+QruE $USER@$HOSTNAME
The key's randomart image is:
+---[RSA 2048]----+
|                 |
|                 |
|                 |
|        .        |
|o.     oS        |
|=... .o .o o     |
|+.+ =+=.+.X o    |
|.+ ==O*B.B = .   |
| .+.=EB++ o      |
+----[SHA256]-----+
Updating project ssh metadata...-Updated [https://www.googleapis.com/compute/v1/projects/$PROJECT_ID].
Updating project ssh metadata...done.
Waiting for SSH key to propagate.

After the SSH keys have been updated you'll be logged into the controller-0 instance:

Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 4.15.0-1006-gcp x86_64)

...

Last login: Sun May 13 14:34:27 2018 from XX.XXX.XXX.XX

Type exit at the prompt to exit the controller-0 compute instance:

$USER@controller-0:~$ exit