Running Kubernetes on Photon OS

1: System Information
2: Prepare the Hosts
3: Configure Kubernetes Services on the Master
4: Configure the Kubernetes services on Node

The procedure describes how to break the services up between the hosts.

The first host, photon-master, is the Kubernetes master. This host runs the kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, and kube-scheduler. In addition, the master also runs etcd. Although etcd is not needed on the master if etcd runs on a different host, this guide assumes that etcd and the Kubernetes master run on the same host. The remaining host, photon-node, is the node and runs kubelet, proxy, and docker.

1 - System Information

Hosts:

photon-master = 192.168.121.9
photon-node = 192.168.121.65

2 - Prepare the Hosts

The following packages should already be installed on the full version of Photon OS, but you might have to install them on the minimal version of Photon OS. If the tdnf command returns “Nothing to do,” the package is already installed.

Install Kubernetes on all hosts–both photon-master and photon-node.

tdnf install kubernetes

Install iptables on photon-master and photon-node:

tdnf install iptables

Open the tcp port 8080 (api service) on the photon-master in the firewall

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8080 -j ACCEPT

Open the tcp port 10250 (api service) on the photon-node in the firewall

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 10250 -j ACCEPT

Install Docker on photon-node:

tdnf install docker

Add master and node to /etc/hosts on all machines (not needed if the hostnames are already in DNS). Make sure that communication works between photon-master and photon-node by using a utility such as ping.

echo "192.168.121.9	photon-master
192.168.121.65	photon-node" >> /etc/hosts

Edit /etc/kubernetes/config, which will be the same on all the hosts (master and node), so that it contains the following lines:

# Comma separated list of nodes in the etcd cluster
KUBE_MASTER="--master=http://photon-master:8080"

# logging to stderr routes it to the systemd journal
KUBE_LOGTOSTDERR="--logtostderr=true"

# journal message level, 0 is debug
KUBE_LOG_LEVEL="--v=0"

# Should this cluster be allowed to run privileged docker containers
KUBE_ALLOW_PRIV="--allow_privileged=false"

3 - Configure Kubernetes Services on the Master

Perform the following steps to configure Kubernetes services on the master:

Edit /etc/kubernetes/apiserver to appear as such. The service_cluster_ip_range IP addresses must be an unused block of addresses, not used anywhere else. They do not need to be routed or assigned to anything.

# The address on the local server to listen to.
KUBE_API_ADDRESS="--address=0.0.0.0"

# Comma separated list of nodes in the etcd cluster
KUBE_ETCD_SERVERS="--etcd-servers=http://127.0.0.1:4001"

# Address range to use for services
KUBE_SERVICE_ADDRESSES="--service-cluster-ip-range=10.254.0.0/16"

# Add your own
KUBE_API_ARGS=""

Start the appropriate services on master:

for SERVICES in etcd kube-apiserver kube-controller-manager kube-scheduler; do
	systemctl restart $SERVICES
	systemctl enable $SERVICES
	systemctl status $SERVICES
done

To add the other node, create the following node.json file on the Kubernetes master node:

{
    "apiVersion": "v1",
    "kind": "Node",
    "metadata": {
        "name": "photon-node",
        "labels":{ "name": "photon-node-label"}
    },
    "spec": {
        "externalID": "photon-node"
    }
}

Create a node object internally in your Kubernetes cluster by running the following command:

$ kubectl create -f ./node.json

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME                LABELS              STATUS
photon-node         name=photon-node-label     Unknown

Note: The above example only creates a representation for the node photon-node internally. It does not provision the actual photon-node. Also, it is assumed that photon-node (as specified in name) can be resolved and is reachable from the Kubernetes master node.

4 - Configure the Kubernetes services on Node

Perform the following steps to configure the kubelet on the node:

Edit /etc/kubernetes/kubelet to appear like this:

###
# Kubernetes kubelet (node) config

# The address for the info server to serve on (set to 0.0.0.0 or "" for all interfaces)
KUBELET_ADDRESS="--address=0.0.0.0"

# You may leave this blank to use the actual hostname
KUBELET_HOSTNAME="--hostname_override=photon-node"

# location of the api-server
KUBELET_API_SERVER="--kubeconfig=/etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig"

# Add your own
#KUBELET_ARGS=""

Edit /etc/kubernetes/kubeconfig to appear like this:

clusters:
- cluster:
    server: http://photon-master:8080

Start the appropriate services on the node (photon-node):

for SERVICES in kube-proxy kubelet docker; do 
    systemctl restart $SERVICES
    systemctl enable $SERVICES
    systemctl status $SERVICES 
done

Check to make sure that the cluster can now see the photon-node on photon-master and that its status changes to Ready.
```
kubectl get nodes
NAME                LABELS              STATUS
photon-node          name=photon-node-label     Ready
```
If the node status is NotReady, verify that the firewall rules are permissive for Kubernetes.
- Deletion of nodes: To delete photon-node from your Kubernetes cluster, one should run the following on photon-master (please do not do it, it is just for information):
```
kubectl delete -f ./node.json
```

Result

You should have a functional cluster. You can now launch a test pod. For an introduction to working with Kubernetes, see Kubernetes documentation.