Installing on Linux

Below you will find some of the most viewed and helpful pages in this chapter. It is highly recommended that you refer to them first.

Provision an HA KubeSphere cluster on QingCloud.

Introduction

Explore the general content in this chapter, including installation preparation, installation tool and method, and storage configurations.

Understand what KubeKey is and how it works to help you create, scale and upgrade your Kubernetes cluster.

Learn the general steps of installing KubeSphere and Kubernetes on a multi-node cluster.

Understand how to install KubeSphere and Kubernetes in the air-gapped environment.

Understand the specific port requirements for different services in KubeSphere.

Learn how to create a highly available cluster using the internal HAProxy of KubeKey.

Learn how to create a highly available cluster using a load balancer.

Learn how to create a highly available cluster using Keepalived and HAproxy.

Understand how to use KubeKey to install different storage systems.

Use KubeKey to create a cluster with QingCloud CSI providing storage services.

Use KubeKey to create a cluster with NFS Client providing storage services.

Use KubeKey to create a cluster with GlusterFS providing storage services.

Use KubeKey to create a cluster with Ceph providing storage services.

Learn how to create a high-availability cluster on QingCloud platform.

Learn how to create a high-availability cluster on VMware vSphere.

Learn how to create a multi-node cluster with one master on bare metal.

Learn how to use KubeKey to install K3s and KubeSphere.

Add more nodes to scale out your cluster.

Cordon a node and even delete a node to scale in your cluster.

Add edge nodes to your cluster.

Remove KubeSphere and Kubernetes from your machines.