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Kubernetes Cluster: Essentials 2 February 2020

This note documents the set-up of a k8s cluster from scratch, including ingress and load-balanced TLS support for web applications. It’s mainly for myself to revisit and reference later on. The result of this note is not (quite) production-grade, and additional features (e.g. firewalls/logging/backups) should be enabled to improve its robustness.

Several cloud providers offer managed k8s services (including Amazon EKS, GKE, Digital Ocean, etc.). Whilst these would be recommended for sensitive or production workloads, I wanted to create my own provider-independent cluster in order to understand the ins and outs.

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