Install Kubernetes
Canonical Kubernetes is pure upstream and works on any infrastructure, from bare metal to public clouds and edge. Deploy single-node and multi-node clusters to support container orchestration, from testing to production. Get the latest innovations from the Kubernetes community within a week of upstream release, enabling your team to learn, experiment and upskill.
Kubernetes cluster with K8s snap
Install Kubernetes with a single command. Canonical Kubernetes comes with in-built networking, gateway, local storage, DNS, load balancer, metrics server and ingress.
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Install the K8s snap
sudo snap install k8s --classicDon’t have the snap command? Get set for snaps
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Bootstrap the cluster
sudo k8s bootstrap -
View status of your installation
sudo k8s status -
Start using Kubernetes
sudo k8s kubectl get all --all-namespaces
To create a cluster out of two or more already-running Kubernetes instances, use the k8s join-cluster command. With three or more control plane nodes you will automatically get high availability.
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Generate token on the already existing control-plane node
sudo k8s get-join-token --worker -
To join the worker node to the cluster, run on the worker node
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Verify the worker node successfully joined the cluster, by running on the control-plane node
sudo k8s kubectl get nodes
Multi-node Kubernetes cluster with K8s charm
Get automated Kubernetes operations from bare-metal to the cloud. Build your Kubernetes cluster from the ground up, integrate it with your favorite tools, and create multi-cloud topologies.
Multi-node Kubernetes
with Cluster API
With Canonical Kubernetes you can deploy and operate Kubernetes through Cluster API (CAPI) bootstrap and infrastructure providers.