By Anish Nath, Alibaba Cloud Tech Share Author. Tech Share is Alibaba Cloud's incentive program to encourage the sharing of technical knowledge and best practices within the cloud community.
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes is a fully-managed service compatible with Kubernetes to help users focus on their applications rather than managing container infrastructure. There are two ways to deploy Kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud, one through Container Service (built-in) and the other through an Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instance (self-built). If you are not sure which installation method suits your needs better, then refer to the documentation Alibaba Cloud Kubernetes vs. self-built Kubernetes.
For the most part, choosing Alibaba Cloud Container Service is the preferred choice as it saves time and reduces the complexity to maintain Kubernetes clusters. However, there may be cases where a manual installation is better suited to your needs. In this article, we will be setting up a self-built kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service instances using Linux flavors (Centos7 and Ubuntu 16.04).
These required ports needs to be opened in the pod security group, to do this:
| Authorization Object | Protocol Type | Port Range | Authorization Policy |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 6443/6443 | Allow |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 2379/2379 | Allow |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 2380/2380 | Allow |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 10250/10250 | Allow |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 10251/10251 | Allow |
| 192.168.0.0/16 | TCP | 10252/10252 | Allow |
| 0.0.0.0/0 | TCP | 22/22 | Allow |
Note:
Locate the Internet IP address (Public IP address) associated with your Alibaba Cloud ECS Instance. There are other ways to connect to your ECS instance as well. Visit the official ECS documentation to learn more.
Before proceeding, stop and check whether:
This example utilizes two ECS instances running in the Alibaba Could environment and with these hostnames
| Master Server name | Minion Cluster |
| kube-master | kube-minion-1 |
These are the minimum requirements to setup kubernetes ECS instance master and minion.
| Requirement | Kubernetes-master | Kubernetes-minion |
| Disable system swap and SELinux | Y | Y |
| remove any swap entry from /etc/fstab | Y | Y |
| net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables is set to 1 | Y | Y |
| Install Docker & enable on restart | Y | Y |
| Install kubeadm | Y | Y |
| Install kubelet | Y | N |
| Install kubectl | Y | N |
| Configure docker cgroupsfs | Y | N |
| Creating Network Addons (flannel/Calico) | Y | N |
Disable system swap with swapoff -a. This will immediately disable swap and remove any swap entry from /etc/fstab
Disable SE Linux by setenforce 0
You should ensure net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables is set to 1 in your sysctlconfig
cat <<EOF > /etc/sysctl.d/k8s.conf
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-ip6tables = 1
net.bridge.bridge-nf-call-iptables = 1
EOF
sysctl --systemIf you are running CentOS or RHEL7, install Docker and enable on restart with these commands.
yum -y update
yum install -y docker If you are running Ubuntu, install Docker and enable on restart with these commands.
apt-get update
apt-get install -y docker.ioStart and enable Docker and check if docker service is running.
systemctl start docker
systemctl enable docker
systemctl status dockerYou will need to install these packages on all of your machines:
Setting up Kubernetes yum repository
cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOFInstall Kubernetes in CentOS7/RHEL7
yum install -y kubelet kubeadm kubectlSetting up Kubernetes apt repository for Ubuntu
apt-get install -y apt-transport-https curl
apt-get install -y docker.io
curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -
cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main
EOF
apt-get updateInstall Kubernetes in Ubuntu
apt-get install -y kubelet kubeadm kubectlEnable & start kublet
systemctl enable kubelet
systemctl start kubeletVerify that your Docker cgroup driver matches the kubelet config: (kube-master node)
docker info | grep -i cgroup
Cgroup Driver: cgroupfsConfiguration for cgroup drive is right in /etc/systemd/system/kubelet.service.d/10-kubeadm.conf
[Service]
Environment="KUBELET_CGROUP_ARGS=--cgroup-driver=cgroupfs"Reload daemon and restart kubelet: (kube-master node)
systemctl daemon-reload
systemctl restart kubeletFlush Reset Kubernetes component (This will wipeout all the cluster config if exist any do not run this after the config create)
kubeadm reset -f Set up Kubernetes Network add on
Note apiserver-advertise-address is the IP of the kube-master
kubeadm init --service-cidr 10.96.0.0/12 --kubernetes-version v1.11.0 --pod-network-cidr 10.244.0.0/16 --apiserver-advertise-address 192.168.1.130You should get information back on initiating commands as a normal user, as well as the network that you need to deploy as well as how to join worker nodes to the cluster.
To start using your cluster, you need to run the following as a regular user:
mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
You can now join any number of machines by running the following on each node
as root:Join the Cluster (kube-minnion)
kubeadm join 192.168.1.130:6443 --token 5m8qxr.46rpadiwt8fcka0v --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:b05a0b8849a57432247c06200864f5ce99d40ffdcae965293c0026204ef33da4Run kubectl get nodes on the master to see this node join the cluster. It will few seconds to get your cluster in ready state
root@kube-master:kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
kube-master Ready master 2m v1.11.0
kube-minion Ready <none> 47s v1.11.0Apply flannel Addons
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/coreos/flannel/v0.10.0/Documentation/kube-flannel.ymlYou will get output like this
clusterrole.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/flannel created
clusterrolebinding.rbac.authorization.k8s.io/flannel created
serviceaccount/flannel created
configmap/kube-flannel-cfg created
daemonset.extensions/kube-flannel-ds createdEnable and restart kubelet engine
systemctl restart kubelet
systemctl status kubeletVerify the Cluster Information
root@kube-master: kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://192.168.1.132:6443
KubeDNS is running at https://192.168.1.132:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxyVerify the Services
root@kube-master:kubectl get services -n kube-system
NAME TYPE CLUSTER-IP EXTERNAL-IP PORT(S) AGE
kube-dns ClusterIP 10.96.0.10 <none> 53/UDP,53/TCP 2mCreate Tokens
[root@kube-master ~]kubeadm token create
I0710 04:08:37.149017 8685 feature_gate.go:230] feature gates: &{map[]}
d49l0d.mheeem1dkrw3n43That's it! You have successfully configured a self-built Kubernetes cluster on Alibaba Cloud. To learn more about Kubernetes on Alibaba Cloud, visit Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes.
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