Continue from part 1

It’s recommended to change all Pi’s password also run ssh-copy-id [email protected] to enable SSH public key login.

There are lots of steps to prepare before kubeadm is installed, so I made this ansible repository to simplify this repeating process. Please see here. The ansible role will do the following tasks:

• set host name, update /etc/hosts file
• enable network bridge
• disable swap, kubeadm doesn’t like it!
• set timezone. You may want to change it to yours
• install docker community edition
• install kubeadm
• use iptables-legacy (Reference here)

Just to emphasise at this moment Raspbian has iptables 1.8, a new strain used to be called netfilter tables or nftables. The original iptables is renamed to iptables-legacy. You can use my ansible role to use iptables-legacy or do it with:

# update-alternatives --set iptables /usr/sbin/iptables-legacy 
# update-alternatives --set ip6tables /usr/sbin/ip6tables-legacy 
# update-alternatives --set arptables /usr/sbin/arptables-legacy 
# update-alternatives --set ebtables /usr/sbin/ebtables-legacy

This is absolutely necessary because current CNI implementations only work with the legacy iptables.

Once the ansible playbook finishes successfully, kubeadm is ready for some action to set up the kubernetes master node, aka. control plane

# the following command is to be run in the master node
# I prefer to use `flannel` as the CNI(container network interface) because it's lightweight comparing to others like weave.net. So the CIDR is to be set as follow
$ sudo kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr 10.244.0.0/16

Then as the kubeadm finishes it will give some instructions to continue. First thing is to copy the admin.conf so kubectl command can authenticate with the control plane. Also save the kubeadm join 192.168.1.80:6443 --token xxx --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:xxx instruction as it will be needed later

$ sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf ~/.kube/config
$ kubectl get node
...
$ kubectl get pods
...

The coredns pods will be at pending state, this is expected. After the CNI is installed this will be fixed automatically. Next step is to install a CNI, in my case it’s flannel.

$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/62e44c867a2846fefb68bd5f178daf4da3095ccb/Documentation/kube-flannel.yml

In a few minutes the flannel and coredns pods should be in available state. The run the join command saved earlier on other Pi nodes

kubeadm join 192.168.1.80:6443 --token xxx     --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:xxx

And back to the master node, you should be able to see the new work node in the output

$ kubectl get nodes

TBC