A collection of scripts to experiment with Kubernetes on AWS

Quickstart - will install cluster with dashboard

ansible-playbook create_instances.yaml -e role=master -e count=1
ansible-playbook create_instances.yaml -e role=node -e count=3
ansible-playbook -b simple-cluster.yaml
ansible-playbook -b add-dashboard-to-cluster.yaml
ansible-playbook -b heapster-with-influxdb.yaml

After completion the debug message will print the URL for your Kubernetes dashboard:

TASK [show URL for Dashboard] ***********************************************************
Saturday 10 February 2018  22:41:10 +0100 (0:00:01.114)       0:00:48.391 *****
ok: [18.196.4.155] => {
    "msg": "Dashboard URL: http://ec2-18-196-4-155.eu-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com/"
}

Requirements

• a working Ansible control host with AWS credentials configured
• working dynamic Ansible 'ec2.py' inventory script
• setup AWS Security Group and VPC in add them to 'create_instances.yaml'
• edit to ansible.cfg if needed

AWS credentials can be configured like this:

export AWS_SECRET_KEY=******
export AWS_ACCESS_KEY=******
export EC2_REGION=eu-central-1

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Dynamic AWS inventory 'ec2.py'

Read here: http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/intro_dynamic_inventory.html#example-aws-ec2-external-inventory-script

You can get ec2.py and ec2.ini here and save both in /etc/ansible:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.ini https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/contrib/inventory/ec2.py