Setup

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Running Kubernetes on AWS EC2

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Getting started with your cluster

Command line administration tool: kubectl

The cluster startup script will leave you with a kubernetes directory on your workstation. Alternately, you can download the latest Kubernetes release from this page.

Next, add the appropriate binary folder to your PATH to access kubectl:

# OS X
export PATH=<path/to/kubernetes-directory>/platforms/darwin/amd64:$PATH

# Linux
export PATH=<path/to/kubernetes-directory>/platforms/linux/amd64:$PATH

An up-to-date documentation page for this tool is available here: kubectl manual

By default, kubectl will use the kubeconfig file generated during the cluster startup for authenticating against the API. For more information, please read kubeconfig files

Examples

See a simple nginx example to try out your new cluster.

The “Guestbook” application is another popular example to get started with Kubernetes: guestbook example

For more complete applications, please look in the examples directory

Scaling the cluster

Adding and removing nodes through kubectl is not supported. You can still scale the amount of nodes manually through adjustments of the ‘Desired’ and ‘Max’ properties within the Auto Scaling Group, which was created during the installation.

Tearing down the cluster

Make sure the environment variables you used to provision your cluster are still exported, then call the following script inside the kubernetes directory:

cluster/kube-down.sh

Support Level

IaaS Provider Config. Mgmt OS Networking Docs Conforms Support Level
AWS kops Debian k8s (VPC) docs Community (@justinsb)
AWS CoreOS CoreOS flannel docs Community
AWS Juju Ubuntu flannel, calico, canal docs 100% Commercial, Community

For support level information on all solutions, see the Table of solutions chart.

Further reading

Please see the Kubernetes docs for more details on administering and using a Kubernetes cluster.

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