Kubernetes Cluster Installation

Prerequisities

Action	Notes
Basic CentOS 7 Installation	the kubernetes cluster is based on the standard install of Centos 7 for all systems/nodes
Ethernet Device Configuration	for BeeGFS (and for convenience) rename network devices to eth*
CUDA + NVIDIA drivers	if the node has a GPU, install the drivers and libraries
BeeGFS Installation	install the parallel filesystem components as needed
iSCSI Volume Mount	(optional) put /var/lib/docker on an iSCSI mounted volume
Docker Installation	Docker is required for all nodes
IP Tables config	set up the system config to use IP Tables properly

Kubernetes Cluster

Full instructions for creating a cluster using kubeadm are located in the kubernetes documentation: https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/create-cluster-kubeadm/

Kubernetes Controller	install kubernetes cluster controller
Kubernetes Nodes	install kubernetes nodes
IP Controller	set up load balancer to assign IP addresses when needed
Metrics Server	install metrics collection for the dashboard
k8dash Dashboard	install the web GUI dashboard<ref>the original/default kubernetes dashboard installation instructions are located at kubernetes Dashboard</ref>
Rook & Ceph Installation	dynamic storage provisioning
helm installation	kubernetes package installer
Kubectl plugins	plugins for the kubectl command

Final Configuration

Now load the rest of the packages for each cluster:

• Production Cluster Configuration
• Development Cluster Configuration
• Test Cluster Configuration

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