Edunetes - Kubernetes self-study environment on the Ubuntu 22.04 laptop

Run the latest release of Vanilla Kubernetes on your Linux laptop.

Cluster configuration

Configuration

Nodes

Ansible playbook, which creates KVM-based Ubuntu 22.04 virtual machine nodes

ansible-playbook playbook-kvm-nodes-create.yaml -c local -K

Cluster configuration

Configure a Kubernetes cluster on the nodes.

ansible-playbook playbook-cluster-nodes-prepare.yaml --private-key=.ssh/id_edunetes -u kubeadmin
ansible-playbook playbook-cluster-nodes-control-node-set-up.yaml --private-key=.ssh/id_edunetes -u kubeadmin
ansible-playbook playbook-cluster-nodes-workers-join.yaml --private-key=.ssh/id_edunetes -u kubeadmin
ansible-playbook playbook-cluster-finalize.yaml --private-key=.ssh/id_edunetes -u kubeadmin

Requirements

• KVM host on Ubuntu 22.04
• Python 3.10 virtual environment
• modern multithread laptop 16gb memory for 2 nodes, 32gb memory for 4 nodes

Prepare KVM host running the following commands.

./set-up-ubuntu22.04-host.sh
git clone https://github.com/pasiol/edunetes.git
cd edunetes
python3.10 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
ansible-galaxy install -r requirements.yaml
ansible-playbook playbook-kvm-host-set-up.yaml -K

Features

• Vanilla Kubernetes from pkgs.k8s.io repository
• Flannel or Calico CNI plugin
• MetalLB loadbalander
• one control plane and multiple worker nodes

Under development, on the Alpha stage