In this blog post , We have explained how to install and configure kubernetes on Centos
We will see how to setup kubernetes master slave architecture from the scratch.
What is Kubernetes?
Kubernetes is an open-source tool for automating deployment , scaling and managing of containerized applications.
We can build an docker images and we can run containers out of it using Docker engine.
And kubernetes will help in managing those containers by loadbalancing and scaling between the containers.
Prerequisites
For setting up Master Slave kubernetes architecture , We need,
- Minimum 2 or more Centos operating systems.
- You should have access to the servers with sudo or root privileges
In this tutorial , We will learn to setup 1 Master node and 1 Worker node setup.
The first step is to install docker on all the servers of the kubernetes nodes.
Installing Docker
Kubernetes requires Docker to be installed on all the Centos servers.
If you have already installed docker on all the system , You can ignore this this , If not , Check this article , To install Docker on Centos servers.
Once the docker is installed , Make sure the docker service is UP and running on master and worker nodes using the below command.
sudo systemctl status docker
Lets go ahead and install kubernetes on the nodes.
Installing Kubernetes
In this step We are going to install tools such as kubeadm , kubelet and kubectl.
The following steps should be executed on all the servers.
If curl package is not installed , Install it using ,
yum install curl -y
Then we need to add the kubernetes repository on all the servers.
create a file and then add the below contents as shown below.
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes] name=Kubernetes baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64 enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 repo_gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
Installing Kubernetes Tools
Here we are going to install tools such as kubeadm , kubelet and kubectl.
kubeadm is a tool which helps you to install and set up a Kubernetes cluster.
kubelet is the node agent that runs on each node which helps to start containers and registere the node with the api server.
kubectl is a command line tool using which you can control kubernetes cluster.
Install the above packages using the below command.
yum install kubeadm kubectl kubelet -y
Start and Enable the Kubectl,
systemctl start kubelet
systemctl enable kubelet
systemctl status kubelet
Lets check the version of kubernetes tools installed on the servers and also make sure to maintain same versions on all the servers.
kubelet --version
kubeadm version
kubectl version
Before initializing kubernetes on master nodes we need to setup proper hostname on all the servers and disable swap on all the servers using the below commands.
hostnamectl set-hostname master-node
hostnamectl set-hostname slave-node
If you have multiple slave nodes , Setup hostnames accordingly.
Then disable swap using the command,
sudo swapoff -a
Initializing Kubernetes on Master Node
Login to master node and enter the below command to initialize kubernetes.
kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=172.31.0.0/20
And while running the above command you may get the below error.
Make sure the servers has minimum of 2 vCPU to successfully initialize the kubernetes.
If the above command is successful , At the end , It will display kubeadm join message at the end.
Make a note of the entire line (command).Using will we will join the worker nodes with the master node.
To start using the cluster , We need to setup folders for the kubernetes cluster.
mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
Then we need to deploy pod network to the cluster.
Pod network is a way to make communications between the nodes in the cluster.
Lets deploy a Flannel virtual network into the cluster using the below command.
sudo kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/master/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml
The Flannel pod network will be delpoyed into the kube-system namespace.
To list all the pods running across the namespaces , Run the below command.
kubectl get po --all-namespaces
Some of the useful commands as follows.
To list all the namespaces in the cluster
kubectl get ns
To list the nodes in the cluster
kubectl get nodes
You can see only the master node within the cluster.As we havn’t joined the worker nodes within the cluster yet.
Lets go ahead and join the worker nodes to the cluster.
Joining Worker Nodes to the Cluster
To join worker nodes with the within the cluster , We need the kubeadm join command , Which we got while initializing the cluster in the master node.
Now Login to worker nodes and run the kubeadm join command.
kubeadm join 172.31.2.73:6443 --token 2txg2t.mb2fi46jhd837wev --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:ce920cea8732eeab34dac71411e75acb56782hss7250281687934ac9644977e26
Don’t forget to replace –token and –discovery-token-ca-cert-hash with your value.
Note: Make sure the worker nodes are able to reach port 6443 on the master node. Check the firewall.
Once the command is successfully executed , You should get the below response.
From the above image , You can see that the worker node is successfully joined with the kubernetes cluster.
Now Login to Master node and run the below command,
kubectl get no
You can see that the worker node is successfully joined to the cluster.
Conclusion
We have successfully installed and configured kubernetes cluster on the Centos Operating system.
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