Simplicity matters: Kubernetes 1.18.2 on your local machine with kubeadm and Multipass, Rancher k3s, RKE & more ..

I was playing with Multipass VMs, Rancher k3s, RKE and Rancher Server on my laptop (MacOS) in the last 2 weeks and did some small implementations to fully automate the deployment of k3s, RKE and Rancher Server on my local machine, mainly for faster and cheeper testing of upgrades of RKE and Rancher and to provide a local real multi-node environment for trainings.

This week the latest and greatest Kubernetes 1.16 was out and during this weekend I wanted to see how to get it running on multipass VMs on my laptop with kubeadm.

You can find the result here on Github.

TLDR: Multi-Node Kubernetes 1.16 with kubeadm on Multipass

git clone https://github.com/arashkaffamanesh/kubeadm-multipass.git
cd kubeadm-multipass
./deploy.sh
...
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Enjoy :-)
Total runtime in minutes was: 09:12
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Update Nov. 2d / 2019

Containerd support was added after our meetup today with the awesome Fahed Dorgaa. To deploy the containerd version, run:

$ ./deploy-bonsai-containerd.sh
...
NAME      STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
master    Ready    master   4m46s   v1.18.2
worker1   Ready    node     52s     v1.18.2
worker2   Ready    node     31s     v1.18.2
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Enjoy :-)
Total runtime in minutes was: 06:22
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k3s, Rancher Kubernetes Engine and Rancher Server on Multipass

I don’t like to bother you with a long story and repeat myself, you can learn about the awesomeness of Rancher k3s, Rancher Server and RKE cluster on Multipass VMs on your local machine and enjoy or blame me on Github or give it a star, if it works for you.

That’s it, Simplicity matters!

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