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Vagrant Kubeadm Cluster MAC Silicon

Fully Automated Kubernetes setup on MAC Silicon M1/M2 laptops using Vagrant and VMWare Fusion.

It can be used as CKA, CKAD, and CKS practice lab.

For MAC intel based setup, check - Vagrant Kubeadm Setup on MAC Intel

Here is the high level workflow.

Prerequisites

A working Vagrant setup using VMware Fusion on MAC.

To install Vagrant & VMWare Fusion please refere this detailed Document Vagrant + Vmware Fusion Setup

Important Note: Please restart the system after the installation.

Bring Up the Cluster

To provision the cluster, execute the following commands.

Important Note: You have to use sudo with all the vagrant commands.

git clone https://github.com/techiescamp/vagrant-kubeadm-mac-silicon.git
cd vagrant-kubeadm-mac-silicon
sudo vagrant up

Set Kubeconfig file variable

You can connect to the Vagrant cluster from your local mac terminal by configuring the following.

cd vagrant-kubeadm-mac-silicon
cd configs
sudo chmod +r config 
export KUBECONFIG=$(pwd)/config

or you can copy the config file to .kube directory.

cp config ~/.kube/

Validate the cluster access

kubectl get po -n kube-system

Install Kubernetes Dashboard

The dashboard is automatically installed by default, but it can be skipped by commenting out the dashboard version in settings.yaml before running vagrant up.

If you skip the dashboard installation, you can deploy it later by enabling it in settings.yaml and running the following:

vagrant ssh -c "/vagrant/scripts/dashboard.sh" controlplane

Kubernetes Dashboard Access

To get the login token, copy it from config/token or run the following command:

kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard get secret/admin-user -o go-template="{{.data.token | base64decode}}"

Make the dashboard accessible:

kubectl proxy

Open the site in your browser:

http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/#/login

To shutdown the cluster,

sudo vagrant halt

To restart the cluster,

sudo vagrant up

To destroy the cluster,

sudo vagrant destroy -f