This document describes how to deploy kubernetes on multiple ubuntu nodes, including 1 master node and 3 minion nodes, and people uses this approach can scale to any number of minion nodes by changing some settings with ease. Although there exists saltstack based ubuntu k8s installation , it may be tedious and hard for a guy that knows little about saltstack but want to build a really distributed k8s cluster. This approach is inspired by .

 will keep updating this work.

Prerequisites：

1 The minion nodes have installed docker version 1.2+

2 All machines can communicate with each orther, no need to connect Internet (should use private docker registry in this case)

3 These guide is tested OK on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit server, but it should also work on most Ubuntu versions

4 Dependences of this guide: etcd-2.0.0, flannel-0.2.0, k8s-0.12.0, but it may work with higher versions

Main Steps

I. Make kubernetes , etcd and flanneld binaries

On your laptop, copy cluster/ubuntu-cluster directory to your workspace.

The build.sh will download and build all the needed binaries into ./binaries.

You can customize your etcd version or K8s version in the build.sh by changing variable ETCD_V and K8S_V in build.sh, default etcd version is 2.0.0 and K8s version is 0.12.0.

$ cd cluster/ubuntu-cluster$ sudo ./build.sh

Please copy all the files in ./binaries into /opt/bin of every machine you want to run as Kubernetes cluster node.

Alternatively, if your Kubernetes nodes have access to Internet, you can copy cluster/ubuntu-cluster directory to every node and run:

# in every node$ cd cluster/ubuntu-cluster$ sudo ./build.sh$ sudo cp ./binaries/* /opt/bin

We used flannel here because we want to use overlay network, but please remember it is not the only choice, and it is also not a k8s' necessary dependence. Actually you can just build up k8s cluster natively, or use flannel, Open vSwitch or any other SDN tool you like, we just choose flannel here as a example.

II. Configue and install every components upstart script

An example cluster is listed as below:

IP Address	Role
10.10.103.223	minion
10.10.103.224	minion
10.10.103.162	minion
10.10.103.250	master

First of all, make sure cluster/ubuntu-cluster exists on this node，and run configue.sh.

On master( infra1 10.10.103.250 ) node:

# in cluster/ubuntu-cluster$ sudo ./configure.shWelcome to use this script to configure k8s setupPlease enter all your cluster node ips, MASTER node comes firstAnd separated with blank space like "
     
      
      
       ": 10.10.103.250 10.10.103.223 10.10.103.224 10.10.103.162This machine acts as  both MASTER and MINION:      1  only MASTER:                 2  only MINION:                 3Please choose a role > 2IP address of this machine > 10.10.103.250Configure Success
      
     
    

On every minion ( e.g. 10.10.103.224 ) node:

# in cluster/ubuntu-cluster$ sudo ./configure.sh Welcome to use this script to configure k8s setupPlease enter all your cluster node ips, MASTER node comes firstAnd separated with blank space like "
     
      
      
       ": 10.10.103.250 10.10.103.223 10.10.103.224 10.10.103.162This machine acts as  both MASTER and MINION:      1  only MASTER:                 2  only MINION:                 3Please choose a role > 3IP address of this machine > 10.10.103.224Configure Success
      
     
    

If you want a node acts as both running the master and minion, please choose option 1.

III. Start all components

1. On the master node:

   $ sudo service etcd start

   Then on every minion node:

   $ sudo service etcd start

   The kubernetes commands will be started automatically after etcd

2. On any node:

   $ /opt/bin/etcdctl mk /coreos.com/network/config '{"Network":"10.0.0.0/16"}'

   You can use the below command on another node to comfirm if the network setting is correct.

   $ /opt/bin/etcdctl get /coreos.com/network/config

   If you got {"Network":"10.0.0.0/16"}, then etcd cluster is working well. If not , please check/var/log/upstart/etcd.log to resolve etcd problem before going forward. Finally, use ifconfig to see if there is a new network interface named flannel0 coming up.

3. On every minion node

   Make sure you have brctl installed on every minion, otherwise please run sudo apt-get install bridge-utils

   $ sudo ./reconfigureDocker.sh

   This will make the docker daemon aware of flannel network.

All done !

IV. Validation

You can use kubectl command to see if the newly created k8s is working correctly.

For example , $ kubectl get minions to see if you get all your minion nodes comming up.

Also you can run kubernetes  to build a redis backend cluster on the k8s．

V. Trouble Shooting

Generally, what of this guide did is quite simple:

1. Build and copy binaries and configuration files to proper dirctories on every node

2. Configure etcd using IPs based on input from user

3. Create and start flannel network

So, whenver you have problem, do not blame Kubernetes, check etcd configuration first

Please try:

1. Check /var/log/upstart/etcd.log for suspicisous etcd log

2. Check /etc/default/etcd, as we do not have much input validation, a right config should be like:

   ETCD_OPTS="-name infra1 -initial-advertise-peer-urls 
         
           -listen-peer-urls 
          
            -initial-cluster-token etcd-cluster-1 -initial-cluster infra1=
           
            ,infra2=
            
             ,infra3=
             
               -initial-cluster-state new"
             
            
           
          
         

3. Remove data-dir of etcd and run reconfigureDocker.shagain, the default path of data-dir is /infra*.etcd/

4. You can also customize your own settings in /etc/default/{component_name} after configured success.