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k0s

Key Features

  • Available as a single static binary
  • Offers a self-hosted, isolated control plane
  • Supports a variety of storage backends, including etcd, SQLite, MySQL (or any compatible), and PostgreSQL.
  • Offers an Elastic control plane
  • Vanilla upstream Kubernetes
  • Supports custom container runtimes (containerd is the default)
  • Supports custom Container Network Interface (CNI) plugins (calico is the default)
  • Supports x86_64 and arm64

Pre-requisite

We will need 1 VM to create a single node kubernetes cluster using k0s. We are using following setting for this purpose:

  • 1 Linux machine, ubuntu-22.04-x86_64 or your choice of Ubuntu OS image, cpu-a.2 flavor with 2vCPU, 4GB RAM, 20GB - also assign Floating IP to this VM.
  • setup Unique hostname to the machine using the following command:
echo "<node_internal_IP> <host_name>" >> /etc/hosts
hostnamectl set-hostname <host_name>

For example,

echo "192.168.0.252 k0s" >> /etc/hosts
hostnamectl set-hostname k0s

Install k0s on Ubuntu

Run the below command on the Ubuntu VM:

  • SSH into k0s machine

  • Switch to root user: sudo su

  • Update the repositories and packages:

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y
  • Download k0s:
curl -sSLf https://get.k0s.sh | sudo sh
  • Install k0s as a service:
k0s install controller --single

INFO[2021-10-12 01:45:52] no config file given, using defaults
INFO[2021-10-12 01:45:52] creating user: etcd
INFO[2021-10-12 01:46:00] creating user: kube-apiserver
INFO[2021-10-12 01:46:00] creating user: konnectivity-server
INFO[2021-10-12 01:46:00] creating user: kube-scheduler
INFO[2021-10-12 01:46:01] Installing k0s service
  • Start k0s as a service:
k0s start
  • Check service, logs and k0s status:
k0s status

Version: v1.22.2+k0s.1
Process ID: 16625
Role: controller
Workloads: true
  • Access your cluster using kubectl:
k0s kubectl get nodes

NAME   STATUS   ROLES    AGE    VERSION
k0s    Ready    <none>   8m3s   v1.22.2+k0s

alias kubectl='k0s kubectl'
kubectl get nodes -o wide

kubectl get all
NAME                 TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
service/kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   38s

Uninstall k0s

  • Stop the service:
sudo k0s stop
  • Execute the k0s reset command - cleans up the installed system service, data directories, containers, mounts and network namespaces.
sudo k0s reset
  • Reboot the system