Re: [atomic-devel] Kubernetes manual setup

[Chris Negus <cnegus redhat com>]

----- Original Message -----
> Works for me.

Me too. If everyone is in agreement, I'll see what I can do with Jason's suggestions. I don't mind writing and maintaining docs on the Kubernetes.io site, if you all will review it and make sure I'm on the right track. Once I put something together, I'll ask Jason and others to take a look at it.

-- Chris Negus

> --
> Thanks,
> Steve Milner
> 
> Atomic | Red Hat | http://projectatomic.io/
> 
> On Feb 21, 2018 1:58 PM, "Jason Brooks" <jbrooks redhat com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 10:28 AM, Stephen Milner <smilner redhat com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 12:34 PM, Chris Negus <cnegus redhat com> wrote:
> >> Red Hat has been phasing out support for manually setting up vanilla
> Kubernetes on RHEL and RHEL Atomic. While there are still procedures for
> setting up Kubernetes in Fedora in the Kubernetes.io documentation, the
> Kubernetes project is considering dropping them because they have become
> outdated:
> >>
> >> https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/7301
> >> https://github.com/kubernetes/website/issues/7302
> >>
> >> In my mind, this means that someone trying out vanilla Kubernetes will
> start with some OS outside of the Fedora/RHEL/CentOS ecosystem. My question
> is, is it okay to let this content die? Or should we encourage some way to
> still manually use Kubernetes on Fedora (Atomic or not)?
> >>
> >> -------------
> >> Chris Negus
> >> Red Hat Principal Technical Writer
> >> RHCA, RHCI, RHCX, RHCE
> >> Author of the Linux Bible, 9th Edition
> >> http://amzn.to/1IBA7NF
> >
> > Jason Brooks has created a number of system containers for folks to
> > use (source in https://github.com/projectatomic/atomic-system-containers/
> ).
> > He has some information in a blog post at:
> >
> >     https://www.projectatomic.io/blog/2017/11/migrating-
> kubernetes-on-fedora-atomic-host-27/
> >
> > I think having the content updated to point to or be based on Jason's
> > instructions would be a good replacement.
> 
> Well actually... the main way I've used these system containers is
> with the ansible scripts at:
> https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/ansible but those
> have been deprecated.
> 
> I think we should:
> 
> * drop the manual instructions from the site
> * tell people who want manual to go read "kubernetes the hard way"
> * focus on kubeadm for kubernetes on atomic (see
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Jasonbrooks/QA/
> AtomicTests/Install_Kubeadm
> and https://github.com/projectatomic/atomic-system-
> containers/tree/master/kubeadm)
> * point to openshift-ansible for people who want a more complicated
> configuration (https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible)
> 
> If you'd like to know *all* my thoughts on the matter, I gave a talk
> on this subject at Flock: https://youtu.be/Y703n0emWUg
> 
> >
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Steve Milner
> >
> > Atomic | Red Hat | http://projectatomic.io/
> >
>