The Continuing Saga of Running Kubernetes on RPi 3 B+ Cluster

So when I said I had Kubernetes running on a four node Raspberry Pi 3 B+ cluster,  I didn’t realize how complex a task it would turn out to be!

I had been following the instructions by Alex Ellis, but it turns out the latest version of Docker and Kubernetes doesn’t run well on the RPi 3 B+. I had to downgrade them to previous versions.

Then there were issues with the network stack. I tried Weave as recommended by Alex, but that didn’t work, so I switched to Flannel. I was then able to get the markdown to HTML converter example running. However, when I went to try setting up a dashboard I couldn’t get that to run because of issues with Flannel. Maybe I’ll try Calico next?

As for the hardware, I’ve added three more Pi’s to make a seven node cluster (one master and six workers).

picture of my k8s cluster
The completed seven node Kubernetes cluster.

I’ll have to spend some more time searching google and reading  the K8s documentation to figure this one out.