This subject has proven rather heavy. There are plenty of places on the net to describe what Kubernetes is. I get that. Now if I go to the home of Kubernetes at https:\/\/kubernetes.io\/<\/a> then I have an absolute load of information about installing, managing and,,,, well, I didn’t really get off of the installation part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? The advice I’ve been given is to work from “bottom up”. The installation of Kubernetes starts with the engine that runs the containers, or the K8s speak, that’ll be “Pods”. The engine is called “kubelet”. Now this actually downloads a Docker image, rather ironically. But there is no information on how to build the container. You will undoubtedly have to expose ports, but I have no idea which ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So then I follow on to find two more components. “Kubectl” runs on every node on the cluster and manages the “kubelets”. Then “Kubeadm” runs on the Master machine and manages the cluster. I hear words such as “Control Plane” and I’m drowning in confusion. However, in the instructions for installing “Kubeadm” it goes on to install “Kubeadm” natively to the node. Its all going down the pan as I can get nothing to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n SO!<\/p>\n\n\n\n I blat the two VMs and clone fresh ones (Great idea using Proxmox). Then I find this chap on YouTube who guides us through the build of a two node cluster, and on Ubuntu specifically. Hell, let’s link him in here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n