Kubernetes Setup With WSL Control Plane and Raspberry Pi Workers

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SSH of Windows' Linux subsystem

Installation instructions for the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 10.

Because who doesn't love bizarre setups? Since I had 2 Raspberry Pis I decided to try setting up a Kubernetes cluster. The main control plane would be on a WSL2 Ubuntu instance. For the Raspberry Pi side I purchased a 4GB starter kit off Amazon. It's enough to meet the basic requirements for being a worker node. So with that it's time to get started.

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containerd

An industry-standard container runtime with an emphasis on simplicity, robustness and portability
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Containerd is required by kubernetes to handle containers on its behalf. A big thanks to the HostAfrica blog for the information on setting containerd up for debain. So the containerd install will need to happen on both the WSL2 instance and the Raspberry Pis. For WSL2 you can just install containerd directly:.

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Google Kubernetes Engine

Google Kubernetes Engine is a powerful cluster manager and orchestration system for running your Docker containers. Set up a cluster in minutes.

The rest of this article will utilize Calico. Between Calico and Flannel, Calico would definitely be the more involved solution. That said, if you're looking towards learning kubernetes for a more cloud oriented environment GKE uses it and the AWS VPC CNI now has Kubernetes Network Policy support. This makes the networking concepts somewhat more close.

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