devops

I’m working on a very large project currently at work that involves Kubernetes. I’ve had quite a bit of time to play with it, and I have been very much enjoying it. Although I run a lot of containerized applications on my local network at home, I have up to this point just been either scheduling the containers by hand, or have been using Rancher as my main scheduler. Honestly though, I have been so impressed with Kubernetes that I finally decided that I should spin up a local cluster for me to use in my homelab. Although it looked pretty straight forward, and really in the end it was, I ran into a number of issues that I wanted to touch on. Two caveats before we get started. First, this is only intended for spinning up Kubernetes on your own VMs, Baremetal, or Linode/Digial Ocean type of boxes. There are way better tools out there if you want to install a cluster in AWS (see Kops). Second, I will be focusing on using CentOS7 as the base operating system. …