If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should refer to the docs that go with that version.
The latest 1.0.x release of this document can be found [here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/docker.md).Documentation for other releases can be found at releases.k8s.io.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Prerequisites
- Step One: Run etcd
- Step Two: Run the master
- Step Three: Run the service proxy
- Test it out
- Run an application
- Expose it as a service
- A note on turning down your cluster
The following instructions show you how to set up a simple, single node Kubernetes cluster using Docker.
Here's a diagram of what the final result will look like:
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You need to have docker installed on one machine.
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Your kernel should support memory and swap accounting. Ensure that the following configs are turned on in your linux kernel:
CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS=y CONFIG_MEMCG=y CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP=y CONFIG_MEMCG_SWAP_ENABLED=y CONFIG_MEMCG_KMEM=y
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Enable the memory and swap accounting in the kernel, at boot, as command line parameters as follows:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1"
NOTE: The above is specifically for GRUB2. You can check the command line parameters passed to your kernel by looking at the output of /proc/cmdline:
$cat /proc/cmdline BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.18.4-aufs root=/dev/sda5 ro cgroup_enable=memory swapaccount=1
docker run --net=host -d gcr.io/google_containers/etcd:2.0.12 /usr/local/bin/etcd --addr=127.0.0.1:4001 --bind-addr=0.0.0.0:4001 --data-dir=/var/etcd/data
docker run \
--volume=/:/rootfs:ro \
--volume=/sys:/sys:ro \
--volume=/dev:/dev \
--volume=/var/lib/docker/:/var/lib/docker:rw \
--volume=/var/lib/kubelet/:/var/lib/kubelet:rw \
--volume=/var/run:/var/run:rw \
--net=host \
--pid=host \
--privileged=true \
-d \
gcr.io/google_containers/hyperkube:v1.0.6 \
/hyperkube kubelet --containerized --hostname-override="127.0.0.1" --address="0.0.0.0" --api-servers=http://localhost:8080 --config=/etc/kubernetes/manifests
This actually runs the kubelet, which in turn runs a pod that contains the other master components.
docker run -d --net=host --privileged gcr.io/google_containers/hyperkube:v1.0.6 /hyperkube proxy --master=http://127.0.0.1:8080 --v=2
At this point you should have a running Kubernetes cluster. You can test this by downloading the kubectl binary (OS X) (linux)
Note for OS/X users: You will need to set up port forwarding via ssh. For users still using boot2docker directly, it is enough to run the command:
boot2docker ssh -L8080:localhost:8080
Since the recent deprecation of boot2docker/osx-installer, the correct way to solve the problem is to issue
docker-machine ssh default -L 8080:localhost:8080
However, this solution works only from docker-machine version 0.5. For older versions of docker-machine, a workaround is the following:
docker-machine env default
ssh -f -T -N -L8080:localhost:8080 -l docker $(echo $DOCKER_HOST | cut -d ':' -f 2 | tr -d '/')
Type tcuser
as the password.
List the nodes in your cluster by running:
kubectl get nodes
This should print:
NAME LABELS STATUS
127.0.0.1 kubernetes.io/hostname=127.0.0.1 Ready
If you are running different Kubernetes clusters, you may need to specify -s http://localhost:8080
to select the local cluster.
kubectl -s http://localhost:8080 run nginx --image=nginx --port=80
Now run docker ps
you should see nginx running. You may need to wait a few minutes for the image to get pulled.
kubectl expose rc nginx --port=80
Run the following command to obtain the IP of this service we just created. There are two IPs, the first one is internal (CLUSTER_IP), and the second one is the external load-balanced IP.
kubectl get svc nginx
Alternatively, you can obtain only the first IP (CLUSTER_IP) by running:
kubectl get svc nginx --template={{.spec.clusterIP}}
Hit the webserver with the first IP (CLUSTER_IP):
curl <insert-cluster-ip-here>
Note that you will need run this curl command on your boot2docker VM if you are running on OS X.
Many of these containers run under the management of the kubelet
binary, which attempts to keep containers running, even if they fail. So, in order to turn down
the cluster, you need to first kill the kubelet container, and then any other containers.
You may use docker kill $(docker ps -aq)
, note this removes all containers running under Docker, so use with caution.