kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way. No scripts.
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This tutorial walks you through setting up Kubernetes the hard way. This guide is not for someone looking for a fully automated tool to bring up a Kubernetes cluster. 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. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. The target audience for this tutorial is someone who wants to understand the fundamentals of Kubernetes and how the…
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- Prerequisites
- Setting up the Jumpbox
- 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
- Smoke Test
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Bootstrap Kubernetes the hard way. No scripts.
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- kelseyhightower
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- Stars
- 50,012
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- 15,905
- Open issues + pull requests
- 56
- License
- Apache-2.0
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- Created
- 2016-07-07T14:15:27.000Z
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- 2025-04-10T06:11:47.000Z
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