kubernetes installation the hard way

Learning about the kubernetes objects like Pod, Deploymet, Service, DaemonSet, StatefulSet are easy. However, real beauty of kubernetes lies with understanding it's control plane components and installing them. Kelsey has written a very good blog on installing k8s the hardway https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way. This blog is very helpful. However, we felt that TLS certificate and CA related concepts are abstracted using cfssl.

Here, in this meetup time for 3 hrs, we will cover the k8s hardway concepts using openssl.

Instructions to attendees:

1. Please bring your latptop.
2. The virtual machines used should be in any one of the public cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GCP).
3. You might require to launch 4 to 5 instances with minimum 2 vCPUs and with 8 GiB RAM.

And... come bootstrap your cluster the hard way and collect a T-shirt after your bootstrap it.