Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster - Part 2
Edit: After fighting with Raspbian Lite, I decided to use HypriotOS as the base image on my Raspberry Pis. Here are the downloads. I used version 1.9.0 that included Docker 18.04.0-ce, kernel 4.14.34. You can still use Etcher below to put the image on the SD Cards
Raspberry Pi Kubenetes Cluster - Part 1
Raspberry Pi Kubenetes Cluster - Part 2
Raspberry Pi Kubenetes Cluster - Part 3
Raspberry Pi Kubenetes Cluster - Part 4
Howdy again.
Alright, my 8 port switch showed up so I was able to connect my raspberry 3B+ boards to my home network. I plugged it in with 6 1ft CAT5 cables I had in my catch-all box that all of us nerds have. I’d highly suggest flexible CAT 6 cables instead if you can get them, like here. I ordered them and they showed up before I finished this post, so I am using the CAT6 cables.
The IP addresses they will receive initialy from my home router via DHCP can be determined with nmap. Lets imagine my subnet is 192.168.1.0/24.
Once I got them on the network I did the following:
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Install Raspbian OS On SD Cards
You can get the Raspberry Pi Stretch Lite OS from here.
Then use the Etcher tool to install it to each of the 6 SD cards.
IMPORTANT
Before putting the cards into the Raspberry Pis you need to add a ssh
folder to the root of the SD cards. This will allow you to ssh to each Raspberry Pi with default credentials (username: pi
and password raspberry
). Example: ssh pi@raspberry_pi_ip
where raspberry_pi_ip
is obtained from the nmap command above.
Next post will be setting up kubernetes. Thank you for reading.
Cheers.