sandcastle / kubernetes-cluster

Bootstraps a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on AWS

Boostrapping Kubernetes on AWS

Bootstraps a multi-node Kubernetes cluster on AWS

Getting Started

To create a new cluster run the init.sh script in the root of the repo. If you dont have the AWS CLI installed, see below first.

sh init.sh

AWS CLI

Before creating a cluster, you first need to install the AWS CLI locally, you can find out more information here.

Install

OSX

If you have Homebrew installed, you can run the following command:

brew install awscli

Windows

If you have Chocolatey installed, you can run the following command:

choco install awscli

Credentials

Once you have the AWS CLI install, you will need to configure it using the following command:

aws configure

Production Ready

Before moving production load onto the cluster, please consider the following:

• Disable IGW routing to private subnet, see subnets section in lib/network.sh to configure

Further Reading

Some articles that helped with this project:

• Kubernetes Cluster on CoreOS - v1.0
• CoreOS on AWS
• VPC reference architecture
• Zero downtime deployments

Some articles yet to be read that may provide value:

• Some notes playing with HAProxy *

• CoreOS follow-up: Sinatra, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana *

• Load-balancing Websockets on EC2

• Using Proxy Protocol With Nginx

• Proxying WebSockets with Nginx

• WebSockets on AWS’s ELB

• Gist: haproxy.cfg Monitor & Reload

• Configuring Websockets behind an AWS ELB

• Managing CoreOS Clusters on AWS with CloudFormation

Some example scripts that helped with this project:

• https://github.com/rombie/contrail-kubernetes-salt/blob/master/kubernetes/cluster/aws/util.sh
• https://github.com/mdlavin/inin-and-out-gameday-2014/blob/master/create.sh
• https://github.com/Memba/Memba-AWS/blob/master/commands/create-ec2-vpc.sh
• https://github.com/fintanr/aws-ecs-experiments/blob/master/ecs-demo-setup.sh
• https://github.com/mathbruyen/home/blob/master/boot.sh