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HomeLab – Deployment of an HA Kubernetes cluster (Part 4 – K3s nodes installation)

Before we get started let’s create a table Variable Role Example or explanation Example IP LOAD_BALANCER_IP 10.10.10.160 LOAD_BALANCER_FQDN k3scl01 SRV1_IP_ADDRESS 10.10.10.161 SECRET_TOKEN Th1s_1s_a_v3ry_s3cr3t_t0ken_pl3as3_k33p_1t_s@f3 NODE_TOKEN Token taken from the server nodes for agent installations SRV1_DNS_NAME Master K3s-CL01-01 10.10.10.161 SRV2_DNS_NAME Master K3s-CL01-02 10.10.10.162 SRV3_DNS_NAME Master K3s-CL01-03 10.10.10.163 SRV4_DNS_NAME Worker K3s-CL01-04 10.10.10.164 SRV5_DNS_NAME Worker K3s-CL01-05 10.10.10.165 SRV6_DNS_NAME Worker …

HomeLab Deployment of an HA Kubernetes cluster (Part 1 – Planning and Decisions)

NOTE: The plan was to publish all the blogs when I finished the deployment. Unfortunately, the deployment is paused due to heavy workload but I am publishing the first few parts already Planning My home lab consists of two ESXi 8.0 servers, a QNAP for Network storage, switches and firewalls. A LOT of firewalls 🙂 …