The Hard Way

1 - Introduction

• Using “Kubernetes the hard way” as a guide to automate creation of Kubernetes cluster

2 - Client tools

• Installation of required command line tools

3 - Network resources

• Create Network resources

4 - Compute instances

• Create Compute instances

4.1 - Terraform outputs

• Output Private/Public IP-Addresses

4.2 - Terraform variables

• Initialise Terraform variables

5 - Certificate Authority

• Using Python to generate the TLS Certificates

6 - Kubeconfig

• Using Python to generate Kubernetes configuration files via kubectl

7 - Data Encryption

• Using Python to generate encyption configuration files to encrypt Kubernetes Secrets

8 - Bootstrap etcd

• Using Ansible to bootstrap etcd

9 - Bootstrap Controllers

• Using Ansible to bootstrap Kubernetes Controllers

10 - Bootstrap Worker nodes

• Using Ansible to bootstrap Kubernetes Worker nodes

11 - Kubernetes Pod network routing

• Using Terraform to create a network route for each Worker node

12 - Kubectl remote configuration

• Configure kubectl to connect to the Kubernetes cluster

13 - DNS

• Deployment of CoreDNS

14 - Smoketest

• Carry out initial smoketest to validate the setup of the Kubernetes cluster