My Journey to Kubernetes onto Bare Metal — Part 1: Introduction

Richard Nunez
1 min readApr 24, 2020

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I’m sure there are tons of guides for the purpose of implementing kubernetes onto an on-premise bare metal setup. But this is my particular journey, pitfalls, and triumphs to getting it all working in a cohesive solution. This is my journey from a kubernetes novice into what I see myself as an accomplished kubernetes implementer and DevOps engineer. Please be aware that your mileage may vary.

These are tools that I decided on, not early, but after doing research and reviewing the consensus of best-practices from others:

There are also optional tools that you may prefer, but these are the ones I am using in addition:

Guides

I will be referring to other guides I used on my journey and attempt to not duplicate existing work, but to instead point out my pitfalls and what I did to overcome them.

Next

Part 2: Choosing an OS

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Richard Nunez

A DevOps Engineer specializing in CI/CD and Containerization. Automate, Automate, Automate.