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Install and Setup your own Kubernetes Cluster with K3s

K3s is a trivial, lightweight, easy to install, implement, and operate version of standard Kubernetes (K8s). The main part is it is not a fork of Kubernetes. K3s is a certified Kubernetes lightweight distribution. It can be used to run production workload as well. I found it is easier to install K3S…

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MINIKUBE Unable to start VM - This computer doesn't have VT-X AMD-v enabled

While setting up and starting minikube in my lab How to Install Minikube on Ubuntu - Step by Step, I was receiving two errors. First error was related to not running minikube start as root privileges. Which was resolved after existing from the root account and running minikube as a normal user.

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How to Install Minikube on Ubuntu - Step by Step

This is a step by step guide to install Minikube on the Ubuntu Linux system. Minikube is a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node. Minikube is available for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems. Minikube is ve…

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Using Ansible to Manage Windows Servers initial setup – Step by Step

In this article I will be configuring and connecting Ansible server and Windows host for Microsoft Windows system configuration management. First prepare Ansible host by installing ansible.windows collection with ansible-galaxy command. Next install pywinrm and python3-winrm Python packages with …

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Using MetalLB as LoadBalancer service to Kubernetes bare metal

The intent of this Load balancer is to spread the workload among different servers or applications. It can be set up on both physical and virtual infrastructures. The load balancer traces the accessibility and availability of pods with the Kubernetes Endpoints API. When it gets an app request for a …

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Terraform module clone VMware vSphere Linux and Windows virtual machine

After writing initial Terraform code to clone VMware Virtual Machine template Using terraform to clone a virtual machine on VMware vSphere infrastructure, There was a requirement to clone Linux and Windows Virtual Machines using the single TF file and it must create multiple VMs from map hash table …

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Terraform VMware vSphere Virtual Machine cloning Operating system not found

After cloning VMWare Virtual Machine using Terraform code, I waited for a long time but terraform apply command was not getting completed and was in the creation state of indefinitely. The VM was cloned on the vCenter server and it was powered on. But when I checked on the VM VMware web remote conso…

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Setup HAProxy for Ingress Controller Kubernetes Cluster

In earlier article I configured Setup and deploy Ingress controller for Kubernetes on Bare Metal servers. To get the web url working in the browser I had used local hosts file to add DNS host entries under directory /etc, but everytime I try the dns url in the browser it was taking me to the fir…

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Setup and deploy Ingress controller for Kubernetes on Bare Metal servers

After install, setup and configuration of Kubernetes Cluster in my bare metal servers, I wanted to do the POC (proof of concept) of Ingress resource for one of the production environment. 

Kubernetes Ingress is an API entity that lets entry to your Kubernetes services from outside network. It p…

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Kubernetes kubeadm join could not find a jws signature in the cluster-info ConfigMap for token ID

While configuring Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm tool and joining Worker nodes into the cluster I receiving below error.

kubeadm join token discovery token ca cert hash preflight kubernetes cluster api server jws signature cluster-info configmap control-plane k8s master node worker node.jpg

Another error: Kubernetes kubeadm join couldn't validate the identity of the API server connection refused

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Kubernetes kubeadm join couldn't validate the identity of the API server connection refused

While configuring new worker node in Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm tool I was receiving below error. Basically I was trying to join worker node in the Kubernetes cluster control-plane using kubeadm join command, but it was failing because of multiple reasons.

Kuberenetes error kubeadm join error preflight error execution phase preflight couldn't validate the indentity of the api server connect connection refused init 6443 dial tcp.jpg

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Install and configure Kubernetes cluster worker nodes using kubeadm - Part 3

In this third part of configuration of Kubernetes cluster I have completed earlier part of a blog Install and configure Kubernetes cluster master nodes using kubeadm - Part 2. I have three Ubuntu server nodes installed in my lab for Worker nodes to add in Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm tool. Be…

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Install and configure Kubernetes cluster master nodes using kubeadm - Part 2

After preparing NGINX load balancer for Kubernetes API Server in Configure Nginx Load Balancer for the Kubernetes API Server - Part 1. It is time to use this LB in Kubernetes cluster. I will setup 3 master nodes in control-plane. Before deploying master nodes using kubeadm, I am preparing servers …

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Configure Nginx Load Balancer for the Kubernetes API Server - Part 1

Although I have written two articles for installation and configuration Kubernetes cluster, it was built with very basic configuration and tried to keep it simple. Here in this article I am configuring full fledged Kubernetes cluster requiring intermediate skills on linux.

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How to install kubernetes worker node on ubuntu Part 2

This is a second part of How to install kubernetes master control-plane on ubuntu. In the Part 1 I made my master node ready. If you are following the article, after executing kubeadm init command you will receive kubeadm join command which you need to use on K8S prepared worker node. Below is the…

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How to install kubernetes master control-plane on ubuntu Part 1

If you’re using containers, there’s a great possibility you’ve heard of Kubernetes, or K8s (in short). In straightforward language, Kubernetes is an open-source system for orchestrating, automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. Kubernetes is a tool intended to ge…

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Ansible authenticate to Microsoft Azure using credential profiles Part 1

My earlier article Quickstart How to authenticate Ansible with Microsoft Azure was for basic and foundation for authentication to azure using Ansible. But I have scenarios with multiple subscriptions to automate multiple azure clouds using Ansible, in that case I will make use of multiple credentia…

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Conditionally create resources in Terraform

I had scenario with Terraform to deploy resources based on the value given in variables. This is also an example of count and if condition. When you use count inside the resource block and if value is mentioned 0 that resource will not be deployed. Now I am giving the count number programmatically …

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Get Started: Configure Ansible for Azure Cloud Infrastructure

This is second part of How to install and configure Ansible on Ubuntu, where I will be installing and configuring Microsoft Azure modules to use it with ansible for Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructure automation. I have python-pip3 is already installed, The next instructions is to install ansible[…

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How to install and configure Ansible on Ubuntu

This is a step by step installation and configuration procedure of ansible on Ubuntu. Ansible is an open source IT automation mechanism that programs provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, orchestration, and many other IT processes. I have my Ubuntu server already setup and…

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