My Own Kind

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Summary

Build a verifiably conformant kubernetes cluster in containers.

Documentation

The FAQ, Kubernetes the Hard Way using mokctl, integrating the Parser in your own project, and how mokctl was created are all in Documentation.

Try mokctl

Take note of the Status below and the Releases page.

For All Operating Systems

Note for Linux users: Cgroups 2 must be disabled. See Install Linux.

Ensure Docker or Moby are installed first.

Add the following to your shell startup file, for example ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc:

alias mokbox='docker run --rm -ti --hostname mokbox --name mokbox -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v /var/tmp:/var/tmp myownkind/mokbox'

Close the terminal and start it again so the alias is created.

Then 'log in' to the work container:

mokbox

Use mokctl and kubectl, which are already installed in the 'mokbox' container:

mokctl build image --get-prebuilt-image

mokctl create cluster myk8s --masters 1

export KUBECONFIG=/var/tmp/admin-myk8s.conf

kubectl get pods -A

Type exit or Ctrl-d to 'log out' of the mokbox. The mokbox container will be deleted but the kubernetes cluster will remain, as will the kubectl file,/var/tmp/admin-myk8s.conf.

To remove the mokctl created kubernetes cluster:

mokbox

export KUBECONFIG=/var/tmp/admin-myk8s.conf

mokctl delete cluster myk8s

exit

Two docker images will remain, 'myownkind/mokbox' and 'myownkind/mok-centos-7-v1.18.3'. Remove them to reclaim disk space, or keep them around to be able to quickly build kubernetes clusters.

See also:

• Mokctl on Docker Hub - to alias the mokctl command only, no mokbox.

• Linux installation options

Status

mokctl

• stable version - not yet.

• development version - 0.8.1-alpha

Mokctl Utility

OS	Termnal	Status
Fedora 31	Gnome Terminal	Works - must disable cgroup2
Fedora 32	Gnome Terminal	Works - must disable cgroup2
Mac OS	Default terminal	?
Windows	Cygwin	?

Contributing

All types of contributions are welcome, from bug reports, giving this project a STAR, success stories, feature requests, fixing typppos, to coding. Also check the CONTRIBUTING.md document.