If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should refer to the docs that go with that version.
The latest 1.0.x release of this document can be found [here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/azure.md).Documentation for other releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.
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** Azure Prerequisites**
- You need an Azure account. Visit http://azure.microsoft.com/ to get started.
- Install and configure the Azure cross-platform command-line interface. http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/xplat-cli/
- Make sure you have a default account set in the Azure cli, using
azure account set
Prerequisites for your workstation
- Be running a Linux or Mac OS X.
- Get or build a binary release
- If you want to build your own release, you need to have Docker installed. On Mac OS X you can use boot2docker.
The cluster setup scripts can setup Kubernetes for multiple targets. First modify cluster/kube-env.sh
to specify azure:
KUBERNETES_PROVIDER="azure"
Next, specify an existing virtual network and subnet in cluster/azure/config-default.sh
:
AZ_VNET=<vnet name>
AZ_SUBNET=<subnet name>
You can create a virtual network:
azure network vnet create <vnet name> --subnet-name=<subnet name> --location "West US" -v
Now you're ready.
You can download and install the latest Kubernetes release from this page, then run the <kubernetes>/cluster/kube-up.sh
script to start the cluster:
cd kubernetes
cluster/kube-up.sh
The script above will start (by default) a single master VM along with 4 worker VMs. You
can tweak some of these parameters by editing cluster/azure/config-default.sh
.
The kubectl tool controls the Kubernetes cluster manager. It lets you inspect your cluster resources, create, delete, and update components, and much more. You will use it to look at your new cluster and bring up example apps.
Add the appropriate binary folder to your PATH
to access kubectl:
# OS X
export PATH=<path/to/kubernetes-directory>/platforms/darwin/amd64:$PATH
# Linux
export PATH=<path/to/kubernetes-directory>/platforms/linux/amd64:$PATH
See a simple nginx example to try out your new cluster.
For more complete applications, please look in the examples directory.
cluster/kube-down.sh