This playbook walks you through setting up Kubernetes the Alta3 way. This guide is a fully automated command to bring up a Kubernetes cluster using Ansible.

Kubernetes The Alta3 Way is optimized for learning, which means taking the long route to ensure you understand each task required to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster.

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The target audience for this tutorial is someone planning to support a production Kubernetes cluster and wants to understand how everything fits together.

Kubernetes The Alta3 Way guides you through bootstrapping a highly available Kubernetes cluster with:

• A highly available cntrol plane backed by etcd
• End-to-end encryption between components
• RBAC authenticated services and users
• Isolated and default-deny networking

Components and versions:

• kubernetes 1.15.3
• containerd 1.2.9
• coredns v1.6.3
• cni v0.7.1
• calico v3.10
• etcd v3.4.0