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Operating system

This guide focuses on Fedora Server but should be applicable to many distributions with minor tweaks. CentOS or Ubuntu Server or would also work just as well.

  • Don't create a swap partition on these machines
  • Make sure ntp is enabled for accurate time
  • Make sure the VMs have static IPs or DHCP reservations, so their IPs won't change

Snap

Snap is a package manager that contains MicroK8s. It comes preinstalled on Ubuntu, but if you're on CentOS, Fedora or others, you'll need to install it on all your nodes: https://snapcraft.io/docs/installing-snap-on-centos

sudo dnf -y install epel-release
sudo dnf -y install snapd
sudo systemctl enable --now snapd
sudo ln -s /var/lib/snapd/snap /snap
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