An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on long-term on-prem deployments
For the really impatient, there's a quickstart available.
The project documentation is available at https://metal-k8s.readthedocs.io.
Sources can be found in the docs folder of this repository. Pull-requests
welcome!
To run a test cluster, one or more VMs running CentOS 7.4 or higher should do. Every server requires a 80GB storage drive.
For production use, we recommend at least
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5 servers
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Each server running CentOS 7.4 or higher (this is the only supported distribution)
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Dedicated system storage on every server, including
- 20GB for
/ - 100GB for
/var
- 20GB for
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An extra drive of at least 80GB for Kubernetes
PersistentVolumestorage
On the host from which the cluster is provisioned, all you need is python and
make on a Unix-like system. On some platforms, Python development packages
(python-dev or python-devel) and a compiler (gcc) may need to be
installed.