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The problem with these tools for me was that they required either Ubuntu or CentOS/RHEL. I was installing on bare metal running Fedora and I'm unwilling to rebu

The problem with these tools for me was that they required either Ubuntu or CentOS/RHEL. I was installing on bare metal running Fedora and I'm unwilling to rebuild my machine for one application. I think I eventually got something set up using the manual documentation but at the time said documentation resulted in a completely insecure installation, entirely unauthenticated. Since I don't have (or want) a "private" network and the docs didn't tell me how to get security any other way, I just gave up on Kubernetes. And really, it's incredibly frustrating how inflexible the docs and setup tools are. As detailed in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14296176), Kubernetes really just consists of Docker and 6 Go binaries. There's no reason setup should be so difficult and certainly no reason why it should be OS dependent.

theptip 9y ago
Got you, that's fair. It's definitely something that's been a pain point in the past, and is what kubeadm was designed to solve. There are actually a lot of tedious configuration parameters that need to be tuned per-distro, which is why there's only now a candidate for a unified solution; it's harder than you might think to create a truly generic tool for this job. (Take a look at the kube-up saltstack files if you want to be horrified by some surprising complexity). Nowadays, it looks like there are a couple options on Fedora, specifically https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fedora_ansible_config/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fed... https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/flannel_multi_node_cluster/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fla... If you're looking for something that "Just Works (tm)", the ansible config (above) would be my bet for where to start these days.

theptip 9y ago

Got you, that's fair. It's definitely something that's been a pain point in the past, and is what kubeadm was designed to solve. There are actually a lot of tedious configuration parameters that need to be tuned per-distro, which is why there's only now a candidate for a unified solution; it's harder than you might think to create a truly generic tool for this job. (Take a look at the kube-up saltstack files if you want to be horrified by some surprising complexity). Nowadays, it looks like there are a couple options on Fedora, specifically https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fedora_ansible_config/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fed... https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/flannel_multi_node_cluster/ https://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/fedora/fla... If you're looking for something that "Just Works (tm)", the ansible config (above) would be my bet for where to start these days.