4.5 KiB
Set Up The Jumpbox
In this lab you will set up one of the four machines to be a jumpbox. This machine will be used to run commands in this tutorial. While a dedicated machine is being used to ensure consistency, these commands can also be run from just about any machine including your personal workstation running macOS or Linux.
Think of the jumpbox as the administration machine that you will use as a home base when setting up your Kubernetes cluster from the ground up. One thing we need to do before we get started is install a few command line utilities and clone the Kubernetes The Hard Way git repository, which contains some additional configuration files that will be used to configure various Kubernetes components throughout this tutorial.
Log in to the jumpbox:
ssh root@jumpbox
All commands will be run as the root user. This is being done for the sake of convenience, and will help reduce the number of commands required to set everything up.
Install Command Line Utilities
Now that you are logged into the jumpbox machine as the root user, you will install the command line utilities that will be used to preform various tasks throughout the tutorial.
apt update
apt-get -y install wget curl vim openssl git
Sync GitHub Repository
Now it's time to download a copy of this tutorial which contains the configuration files and templates that will be used build your Kubernetes cluster from the ground up. Clone the Kubernetes The Hard Way git repository using the git command:
git clone --depth 1 \
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way.git
Change into the kubernetes-the-hard-way directory:
cd kubernetes-the-hard-way
This will be the working directory for the rest of the tutorial. If you ever get lost run the pwd command to verify you are in the right directory when running commands on the jumpbox:
pwd
/root/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Download Binaries
In this section you will download the binaries for the various Kubernetes components. The binaries will be stored in the downloads directory on the jumpbox, which will reduce the amount of internet bandwidth required to complete this tutorial as we avoid downloading the binaries multiple times for each machine in our Kubernetes cluster.
From the kubernetes-the-hard-way directory create a downloads directory using the mkdir command:
mkdir downloads
The binaries that will be downloaded are listed in the downloads.txt file, which you can review using the cat command:
cat downloads.txt
Download the binaries listed in the downloads.txt file using the wget command:
wget -q --show-progress \
--https-only \
--timestamping \
-P downloads \
-i downloads.txt
Depending on your internet connection speed it may take a while to download the 584 megabytes of binaries, and once the download is complete, you can list them using the ls command:
ls -loh downloads
total 584M
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 41M May 9 13:35 cni-plugins-linux-arm64-v1.3.0.tgz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 34M Oct 26 15:21 containerd-1.7.8-linux-arm64.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 22M Aug 14 00:19 crictl-v1.28.0-linux-arm.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 15M Jul 11 02:30 etcd-v3.4.27-linux-arm64.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 111M Oct 18 07:34 kube-apiserver
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 107M Oct 18 07:34 kube-controller-manager
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 51M Oct 18 07:34 kube-proxy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 52M Oct 18 07:34 kube-scheduler
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 46M Oct 18 07:34 kubectl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 101M Oct 18 07:34 kubelet
-rw-r--r-- 1 root 9.6M Aug 10 18:57 runc.arm64
Install kubectl
In this section you will install the kubectl, the official Kubernetes client command line tool, on the jumpbox machine. `kubectl will be used to interact with the Kubernetes control once your cluster is provisioned later in this tutorial.
Use the chmod command to make the kubectl binary executable and move it to the /usr/local/bin/ directory:
{
chmod +x downloads/kubectl
cp downloads/kubectl /usr/local/bin/
}
At this point kubectl is installed and can be verified by running the kubectl command:
kubectl version --client
Client Version: v1.28.3
Kustomize Version: v5.0.4-0.20230601165947-6ce0bf390ce3
At this point the jumpbox has been set up with all the command line tools and utilities necessary to complete the labs in this tutorial.