⚠️ This is a fork of the original Kubernetes The Hard Way, I just added the equivalent commands for AWS when required, just so this wasn't a simple copy & paste exercise for me. I took many ideas from Kubernetes The Hard Way - AWS.
This tutorial walks 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 Kubernetes Engine, Amazon EKS or the Getting Started Guides.
Kubernetes The Hard Way is optimized for learning, which means taking the long route to ensure you understand each task required to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster.
The results of this tutorial should not be viewed as production ready, and may receive limited support from the community, but don't let that stop you from learning!
The target audience for this tutorial is someone planning to support a production Kubernetes cluster and wants to understand how everything fits together.
Kubernetes The Hard Way guides you through bootstrapping a highly available Kubernetes cluster with end-to-end encryption between components and RBAC authentication.
- Kubernetes 1.10.2
- containerd Container Runtime 1.1.0
- gVisor 08879266fef3a67fac1a77f1ea133c3ac75759dd
- CNI Container Networking 0.6.0
- etcd 3.3.5
This tutorial assumes you have access to the Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services. While GCP or AWS are used for basic infrastructure requirements the lessons learned in this tutorial can be applied to other platforms.
- Prerequisites
- Installing the Client Tools
- Provisioning Compute Resources
- Provisioning the CA and Generating TLS Certificates
- Generating Kubernetes Configuration Files for Authentication
- Generating the Data Encryption Config and Key
- Bootstrapping the etcd Cluster
- Bootstrapping the Kubernetes Control Plane
- Bootstrapping the Kubernetes Worker Nodes
- Configuring kubectl for Remote Access
- Provisioning Pod Network Routes
- Deploying the DNS Cluster Add-on
- Smoke Test
- Cleaning Up