Welcome, this tutorial will show you how easy it is to setup k3s, the easy to install, lightweight Kubernetes distribution.
For more information, check out https://k3s.io and https://github.com/rancher/k3s/blob/master/README.md.

Steps
Explore k3s
Step 1
Install k3s
The first step is installing k3s.
k3s consists of a server and an agent, where the server will run the master components, and the agent the worker components.
- Host 1 (
master
) will function as server and will also join the cluster by running the agent.
There is a simple curl
oneliner to install k3s. For demo purposes, we are pre-configuring a cluster secret.
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | K3S_CLUSTER_SECRET=thisisverysecret sh -
You can run the following command to check if the node is in Ready state (you might need to run the command a couple of times, can take up to 30 seconds for the node to register):
k3s kubectl get node
For your convenience, the following command will wait until the node shows up as Ready
:
until k3s kubectl get node 2>/dev/null | grep master | grep -q ' Ready'; do sleep 1; done; k3s kubectl get node
As soon as it shows master
with status Ready
, you have built your single host cluster!
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
master Ready <none> 28s v1.13.5-k3s.1