Kubernetes 1.11 on Ubuntu 18.04 bare-metal single host
My Kubernetes 1.10 home cluster went down after some system updates and I couldn’t bring it back. It looked like incompatible kubelet versions and kubernetes tools updating underneath it from 1.10 to 1.11 was at least part of the problem alongside a docker upgrade. So I brought it back up quickly again using kubeadm, as described below.
Adapted from my earlier post:
If you want to see how to include a monitoring dashboard (including with the required RBAC cluster service account) in the cluster, refer to that post.
Install docker and kubernetes executables
sudo apt install docker.io
sudo systemctl enable docker
sudo apt-get update \
&& sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https \
&& curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
# bionic 18.04 repo still not yet available, so use 16.04 (xenial)
echo "deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" \
| sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list \
&& sudo apt-get update
sudo apt install -y kubeadm kubelet kubernetes-cni
# turn off swap
sudo swapoff -a
sudo rm -f /swapfile
sudo vi /etc/fstab
sudo swapon --summary
cat /proc/swaps
Initialize kubernetes (single-host) cluster
Since I had already done the above steps previously, there was no need to repeat them, and I started here
IP_ADDR=$(ip addr show eno1 | grep -Po 'inet \K[\d.]+')
echo $IP_ADDR
sudo kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=10.244.0.0/16 --apiserver-advertise-address=${IP_ADDR}
Prepare kubectl
mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
Setup cluster with flannel network fabric
See https://github.com/coreos/flannel/blob/master/Documentation/kubernetes.md
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/k8s-manifests/kube-flannel-rbac.yml
Allow single node (master) cluster
Since there is only one node (and a master node) in our cluster, it has to be allowed
kubectl taint nodes --all node-role.kubernetes.io/master-
Check that it is working and run some services!
kubectl get all --namespace=kube-system
kubectl get all --namespace=kube-system -o wide
I maintain in a Git repository my homespun configs for a kubernetes cluster I run on my home network. RUN.md there shows the services I use.
I am a fan of traefik a “cloud native edge router” which has Let’s Encrypt support for HTTPS and great kubernetes support built-in. It let’s me easily expose services to Internet over HTTPS. Definitely recommend.