##Deploy a production ready kubernetes cluster

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• Can be deployed on AWS, GCE, Azure, OpenStack or Baremetal
• High available cluster
• Composable (Choice of the network plugin for instance)
• Support most popular Linux distributions
• Continuous integration tests

To deploy the cluster you can use :

kargo-cli (deprecated, a newer go version soon)
Ansible usual commands
vagrant by simply running vagrant up (for tests purposes)

• Requirements
• Getting started
• Vagrant install
• CoreOS bootstrap
• Ansible variables
• Cloud providers
• OpenStack
• AWS
• Azure
• Network plugins
• Roadmap

Supported Linux distributions

• CoreOS
• Debian Wheezy, Jessie
• Ubuntu 14.10, 15.04, 15.10, 16.04
• Fedora 23
• CentOS/RHEL 7

Versions

kubernetes v1.4.6
etcd v3.0.6
flanneld v0.6.2
calicoctl v0.22.0
weave v1.6.1
docker v1.10.3

Requirements

• The target servers must have access to the Internet in order to pull docker images.
• The firewalls are not managed, you'll need to implement your own rules the way you used to. in order to avoid any issue during deployment you should disable your firewall
• Copy your ssh keys to all the servers part of your inventory.
• Ansible v2.x and python-netaddr

Network plugins

You can choose between 3 network plugins. (default: flannel with vxlan backend)

• flannel: gre/vxlan (layer 2) networking.

• calico: bgp (layer 3) networking.

• weave: Weave is a lightweight container overlay network that doesn't require an external K/V database cluster.
  (Please refer to weave troubleshooting documentation)

The choice is defined with the variable kube_network_plugin

CI Tests

Google Compute Engine

          | Calico        | Flannel       | Weave         |

------------- | ------------- | ------------- | ------------- | Ubuntu Xenial |||| CentOS 7 |||| CoreOS (stable) ||||

CI tests sponsored by Google (GCE), and teuto.net for OpenStack.