README.md

Ansible Role: K8s master

An Ansible Role that installs a Kubernetes master node with kubeadm on Ubuntu.

Requirements

Requires Docker; recommended role for Docker installation: yanehi.docker.

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

k8s_major_version: 1
k8s_minor_version: 18
k8s_patch_version: 1
k8s_version: "{{ k8s_major_version }}.{{ k8s_minor_version }}.{{ k8s_patch_version }}"

Specify the k8s version you want to use. Set major, minor and patch of the k8s version.

k8s_repo: deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main
debian: apt
k8s_apt_gpg_key_url: https://packages.cloud.google.com/{{ debian }}/doc/apt-key.gpg

Add the GPG key and repository for the kubeadm installation components.

calico_network_plugin: https://docs.projectcalico.org/manifests/calico.yaml
pod_subnet: 192.168.0.0/16

The k8s master node uses calico as network solution. Specify the pod subnet you want to pass to kubeadm init command.

k8s_master_port: 6443
etcd_connection_port: 2379
etcd_raft_port: 2380
k8s_master_ip: 192.168.56.160
k8s_master_hostname: k8smaster
k8s_home: /root
k8s_user: root

Change the k8s-master ip for the etc/hosts entry and kubeadm init command.

k8s_components:
    - kubeadm={{ k8s_version }}-00
    - kubelet={{ k8s_version }}-00
    - kubectl={{ k8s_version }}-00

Installs the k8s components which will be needed on every node. The version you specified in default/main.yml.

Disable swap on host

- name: Disable swap
  shell: swapoff -a

- name: Disable swap permanently
  replace:
    path: /etc/fstab
    regexp: '^(\s*)([^#\n]+\s+)(\w+\s+)swap(\s+.*)$'
    replace: '#\1\2\3swap\4'
    backup: yes

Kubernetes nodes require to disable swap.

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created in 2020 by Yannic Nevado.