Today is a rainning day on the cost zone on the Argentine South.
Talking with some friends of the India, appeared some doubts about some questions in a CKA revision meet to pass the CKA certification.
The idea was test some labs to asnwer some questions about the deployments of the applications and HA. But the lab of my dearly friend Askay was only one node with minkube.
So I was remember a tweet from Carlos Santana that a I readed few weeks ago and the result was deploy a new node with minikube using minikube commands.
The first step was reproducing the same scenario, so I decided install minikube on my laptop and share with yours a brief explanation:
Installing Minikube for ubuntu 20.04
Download the minikube, please.
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
Now, copied the files and gave some necessary permissions:
sudo cp minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/minikube minikube version
After obtain our minikube software, remember check if you have virtualbox or KVM in your machine. If you prefer Windows, It’s necessary activate Hyper-V.
It’s important knows that is a review of the problem of my friend and I was step by step your installation and startup as him did.
Startup the minikube cluster
Now, when we tried the Carlos recommendation, this solution did not found.
Let’s go and see that happened.
Minikube start
juanandres@prometheus:~$ minikube start
😄 minikube v1.25.1 on Ubuntu 20.04
✨ Automatically selected the virtualbox driver
💿 Downloading VM boot image ...
> minikube-v1.25.0.iso.sha256: 65 B / 65 B [-------------] 100.00% ? p/s 0s
> minikube-v1.25.0.iso: 226.25 MiB / 226.25 MiB 100.00% 2.78 MiB p/s 1m22s
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
💾 Downloading Kubernetes v1.23.1 preload ...
> preloaded-images-k8s-v16-v1...: 504.42 MiB / 504.42 MiB 100.00% 2.96 MiB
🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2900MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.23.1 on Docker 20.10.12 ...
▪ kubelet.housekeeping-interval=5m
▪ Generating certificates and keys ...
▪ Booting up control plane ...
▪ Configuring RBAC rules ...
🔎 Verifying Kubernetes components...
▪ Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
🌟 Enabled addons: default-storageclass, storage-provisioner
🏄 Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default
Run kubectl command and check nodes and pods running:
❯ kubectl get nodes NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION minikube Ready control-plane,master 18m v1.23.1 ❯ kubectl get ns NAME STATUS AGE default Active 18m kube-node-lease Active 18m kube-public Active 18m kube-system Active 18m
Attach new node on minikube
On this moment , we decide attach the new node with the :
minikube add node See below please, to review the implemented command:
juanandres@prometheus:~$ minikube node add 😄 Adding node m02 to cluster minikube ❗ Cluster was created without any CNI, adding a node to it might cause broken networking. 👍 Starting worker node minikube-m02 in cluster minikube 🔥 Creating virtualbox VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2200MB, Disk=20000MB) ... 🐳 Preparing Kubernetes v1.23.1 on Docker 20.10.12 ... 🔎 Verifying Kubernetes components... 🏄 Successfully added m02 to minikube!
Check the new node
With kubectl commands we can check the new worker instance running fine:
❯ kubectl get nodes
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
minikube Ready control-plane,master 20m v1.23.1
minikube-m02 Ready <none> 41s v1.23.1
Remember, Askay did start a minikube with one node, so was necessary only add a new node. If my friend did not start the service, the correct choice was this one:
minikube start --nodes=2 --cpus=2 --memory=2gHave a nice week and enjoy your Kubernets mini lab !
Juan Andres Mercado Technology Blog 