CloudLab - For Researchers and Educators

If you have access to CloudLab or a similar infrastructure where you can create virtual machines, you can use it to set up a Kubernetes cluster.

Prerequisites

  1. Access to CloudLab or a similar infrastructure where you can create virtual machines.
  2. kubectl installed on your local machine. Refer the docs here.

Creating CloudLab Experiment

  1. Head on here and instantiate this profile on CloudLab. This profile will create three nodes for you: one master node and two worker nodes.

  2. Clone the cloudlab-kubernetes repository locally. Follow the instructions in the README to set up the Kubernetes cluster and configure the nodes. This step will also configure the kubectl on your local machine to connect to the Kubernetes cluster.

  3. Verify the installation by running 

kubectl get nodes

If everything is set up correctly, you should see the master and worker nodes listed as shown below: 

$ kubectl get nodes
NAME      STATUS   ROLES           AGE     VERSION
master    Ready    control-plane   4h3m    v1.30.2
worker1   Ready    <none>          3h53m   v1.30.2
worker2   Ready    <none>          3h52m   v1.30.2