How to Install Kubernetes on CentOS/RHEL k8s: Part-4

4 min readMar 3, 2023

Originally published at https://kapendra.com

Now from the previous article, we have completed section 1 for setting up the Kubernetes cluster. In section 1 we have installed all the components and packages which were required to set up on both the worker node and master node.

We will be continuing our section 2 and section 3 in this article to complete our Kubernetes cluster. For those who have not completed the section1 please follow this link to complete section 1 before continuing to section 2:

How to Install Kubernetes on CentOS/RHEL

Before continuing section 2, I would like to mention about pod network. There are several pod network plugins available for communication between pods which is called Kubernetes. Kubernetes supports the CNI — the Container Network Interface.

Following are few solutions which provide plugins for Kubernetes (listed alphabetically):

Calico
Flannel
Open vSwitch (OVS)
Romana
Weave
You can also write your own.

For this installation, I m going to use calico pod network. Well, you may use any of the pod network plugins to continue with the installation.

Section 2: Command to Run on Master Node only

Step 1: Initiate Kubernetes cluster

To initiate the pod network we need to run following command. In this comment, we will tell the kubernetes cluster to use pod network cidr and API server IP. As here I am initializing kubernetes cluster with calico pod network.

[root@kmaster ~]# kubeadm init --pod-network-cidr=192.168.0.0/16 --apiserver-advertise-address=192.168.56.101

This will take some time don’t worry after getting this complete, there are some important information keep it for further use like below
And keep kubeadm join command for future reference which will be used for joining your worker node.

Now run the command as instructed from the result of the previous command.

[root@kmaster ~]# mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
[root@kmaster ~]# sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
[root@kmaster ~]# sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config

Keep this for further use:

kubeadm join 192.168.56.101:6443 --token sr1t6u.gvdabpj1bjr2oruv --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:06186350f1f48466884b0a017f

Step 2: Bring UP the Pod (calico or flannel)

After kuberenets cluster initialization, we need to bring up the pod network so that our pods can communicate with each other.

[root@kmaster ~]# kubectl apply -f https://docs.projectcalico.org/v3.0/getting-started/kubernetes/installation/hosted/kubeadm/1.7/calico.yaml

Test your calico pod network deployment.

[root@kmaster ~]# kubectl get pods -o wide --all-namespaces

Bring Up the DashBoard

[root@kmaster ~]# kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/dashboard/master/src/deploy/recommended/kubernetes-dashboard.yaml
[root@kmaster ~]# kubectl get pods -o wide --all-namespaces

Here comes the end of section 2 now we will run the last section i.e section3. In this section, we will run our command only on worker nodes.

Section 3: Command to Run on Worker Node only

Part 1: Join Node
Now run join command which we got after initialization of kubernetes cluster in section 2
On both

On Node 1

[root@knode1 ~]# kubeadm join 192.168.56.101:6443 --token sr1t6u.gvdabpj1bjr2oruv --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:06186350f1f48466884b0a017f

On Node 2

[root@knode2 ~]# kubeadm join 192.168.56.101:6443 --token sr1t6u.gvdabpj1bjr2oruv --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:06186350f1f48466884b0a017f

This Completes the installation process by joining our nodes. we can also verify that our nodes have joined kubernetes cluster by running on the master