The Kubernetes example provisions a 3 node Kubernetes v1.8.5 cluster. bootkube is run once on a controller node to bootstrap Kubernetes control plane components as pods before exiting. An etcd3 cluster across controllers is used to back Kubernetes.
Ensure that you've gone through the matchbox with rkt or matchbox with docker guide and understand the basics. In particular, you should be able to:
- Use rkt or Docker to start
matchbox - Create a network boot environment with
coreos/dnsmasq - Create the example libvirt client VMs
/etc/hostsentries fornode[1-3].example.com
Install bootkube v0.9.1 and add it on your $PATH.
$ bootkube version
Version: v0.9.1The examples statically assign IP addresses to libvirt client VMs created by scripts/libvirt. The examples can be used for physical machines if you update the MAC addresses. See network setup and deployment.
- bootkube - iPXE boot a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster
- bootkube-install - Install a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster
Download the CoreOS Container Linux image assets referenced in the target profile.
$ ./scripts/get-coreos stable 1576.5.0 ./examples/assetsAdd your SSH public key to each machine group definition as shown.
{
"profile": "bootkube-worker",
"metadata": {
"ssh_authorized_keys": ["ssh-rsa pub-key-goes-here"]
}
}Use the bootkube tool to render Kubernetes manifests and credentials into an --asset-dir. Set the --network-provider to flannel (default) or experimental-calico if desired.
bootkube render --asset-dir=assets --api-servers=https://node1.example.com:443 --api-server-alt-names=DNS=node1.example.com --etcd-servers=https://node1.example.com:2379Later, a controller will use bootkube to bootstrap these manifests and the credentials will be used to access your cluster.
Use rkt or docker to start matchbox and mount the desired example resources. Create a network boot environment and power-on your machines. Revisit matchbox with rkt or matchbox with Docker for help.
Client machines should boot and provision themselves. Local client VMs should network boot Container Linux and become available via SSH in about 1 minute. If you chose bootkube-install, notice that machines install Container Linux and then reboot (in libvirt, you must hit "power" again). Time to network boot and provision physical hardware depends on a number of factors (POST duration, boot device iteration, network speed, etc.).
We're ready to use bootkube to create a temporary control plane and bootstrap a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster.
Secure copy the etcd TLS assets to /etc/ssl/etcd/* on every controller node.
for node in 'node1'; do
scp -r assets/tls/etcd-* assets/tls/etcd core@$node.example.com:/home/core/
ssh core@$node.example.com 'sudo mkdir -p /etc/ssl/etcd && sudo mv etcd-* etcd /etc/ssl/etcd/ && sudo chown -R etcd:etcd /etc/ssl/etcd && sudo chmod -R 500 /etc/ssl/etcd/'
doneSecure copy the kubeconfig to /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig on every node to path activate the kubelet.service.
for node in 'node1' 'node2' 'node3'; do
scp assets/auth/kubeconfig core@$node.example.com:/home/core/kubeconfig
ssh core@$node.example.com 'sudo mv kubeconfig /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig'
doneSecure copy the bootkube generated assets to any controller node and run bootkube-start (takes ~10 minutes).
scp -r assets [email protected]:/home/core
ssh [email protected] 'sudo mv assets /opt/bootkube/assets && sudo systemctl start bootkube'Watch the Kubernetes control plane bootstrapping with the bootkube temporary api-server. You will see quite a bit of output.
$ ssh [email protected] 'journalctl -f -u bootkube'
[ 299.241291] bootkube[5]: Pod Status: kube-api-checkpoint Running
[ 299.241618] bootkube[5]: Pod Status: kube-apiserver Running
[ 299.241804] bootkube[5]: Pod Status: kube-scheduler Running
[ 299.241993] bootkube[5]: Pod Status: kube-controller-manager Running
[ 299.311743] bootkube[5]: All self-hosted control plane components successfully startedVerify the Kubernetes cluster is accessible once complete. Then install important cluster addons. You may cleanup the bootkube assets on the node, but you should keep the copy on your laptop. It contains a kubeconfig used to access the cluster.
Install kubectl on your laptop. Use the generated kubeconfig to access the Kubernetes cluster. Verify that the cluster is accessible and that the apiserver, scheduler, and controller-manager are running as pods.
$ export KUBECONFIG=assets/auth/kubeconfig
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS AGE VERSION
node1.example.com Ready 11m v1.8.5
node2.example.com Ready 11m v1.8.5
node3.example.com Ready 11m v1.8.5
$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
kube-system kube-apiserver-zd1k3 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-controller-manager-762207937-2ztxb 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-controller-manager-762207937-vf6bk 1/1 Running 1 7m
kube-system kube-dns-2431531914-qc752 3/3 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-flannel-180mz 2/2 Running 1 7m
kube-system kube-flannel-jjr0x 2/2 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-flannel-mlr9w 2/2 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-proxy-0jlq7 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-proxy-k4mjl 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-proxy-l4xrd 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-scheduler-1873228005-5d2mk 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system kube-scheduler-1873228005-s4w27 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system pod-checkpointer-hb960 1/1 Running 0 7m
kube-system pod-checkpointer-hb960-node1.example.com 1/1 Running 0 6mInstall important cluster addons.
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