'Software selection' : select 'OpenSSH server' (This is required if you want you connect to your server remotely using ssh command).

'How do you want to manage upgrades on this system?' : No automatic updates.

'HTTP proxy information' : leave blank (if you are outside company proxy).

'Partition disk' : 'Guided - use entire disk'.

Ubuntu setup screen will be shown as below.įollow instructions until this screen and fill 'kubemaster' as hostname.įill in 'Full name', 'username' and 'password' as needed. Repeat step 1 and 2 with below information Click 'Adds optical drive' at the top right corner.Write down 'MAC Address' to reserve IP address so that your IP will not change every time the VM restarted.Select 'Attached to' as 'Bridged Adapter'.

We will use bridge network so we have the real network ip address that can talk to the outside world. In theory, master node will need less resource comparing to worker node. RAM and cpu can be adjusted based on your need. They're all mostly the same except hostname.

1 machine is for kubernetes master and the reset for worker node. 10-30GB of disk space per VM (4 nodes will need around 100GB).You can reduce number of nodes depending on your available RAM Available 2GB of RAM per VM (4 nodes will need at 8GB).Download Ubuntu 16.04 Image for VirtualBox or 64bit Direct link.This guide is based on Windows but since it's a virtual machine, others OS shouldn't be different This is part of Setup your own kubernetes cluster on VMs series. One designated to be kubernetes master node and the other three as worker nodes. This post will guide you to create 4 virtual machine based on Ubuntu Server.

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