Deploy Kubernetes on KVM using Flatcar Container Linux

A Container is a standard way of packaging an application and all its dependencies for running across multiple or different environments seamlessly. Containers will contain the application code, system tools, run time, libraries, and all the settings required to run the app. Having multiple containers without a management platform will not give you the desired capabilities required for running microservices in an aggressive production environment. For this reason Kubernetes came into existence.

On the flip side, Kubernetes is a container management solution with the goal of automating deployment of containers, its scaling, descaling, load balancing among many other operations. The two major server components of Kubernetes is the Control Plane and Worker nodes. In this article we discuss in detail the process of deploying both control plane nodes and worker nodes using Flatcar Container Linux, on a KVM powered virtualized infrastructure.

Our Lab setup will be based on the following systems and hostnames.