Setup and run a multi-node Kubernetes cluster locally with the following specs:

• Nodes: 1 master, 2 worker (ubuntu 18.04)
• Kubernetes 1.19.6
• CNI: Calico v3.17

Motivation: I needed a repeatable local Kubernetes environment to prepare for CKA exam.

• Vagrant 2.2.9+
• VirtualBox 6.1.2+
• kubectl 1.19+ (if you want to operate the cluster from your machine)

To provision the cluster run:

vagrant up 

Verify the cluster (.cache directory will be created under kubernetes-demo-cluster/ in the previous step)

kubectl get nodes --kubeconfig=.cache/k8s-config.yaml NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION master-0 Ready master 4m14s v1.19.6 worker-1 Ready <none> 2m24s v1.19.6 worker-2 Ready <none> 40s v1.19.6 

Deploy Nginx Ingress Controller:

kubectl apply -f resources/base/nginx-ingress.yaml --kubeconfig=.cache/k8s-config.yaml 

Deploy metrics-server (for kubectl top commands):

kubectl apply -f resources/base/metrics-server.yaml --kubeconfig=.cache/k8s-config.yaml 

Execute the following command to remove the virtual machines created for the Kubernetes cluster.

vagrant destroy -f 

• To install a different Kubernetes version update K8S_VERSION in node/provision_node.sh
• The number of worker nodes to provision is configured by WORKERS constant in Vagrantfile
• You can delete individual workers, e.g. vagrant destroy worker-2 -f
• Every node will have this directory mounted to /vagrant
• CKA exam resources:
  • https://github.com/walidshaari/Kubernetes-Certified-Administrator
  • https://github.com/StenlyTU/K8s-training-official
  • https://rx-m.com/cka-online-training/