Quick Setup Guide For PMK
This document provides a quick setup guide for Platform9 Managed Kubernetes (PMK). If you are new to PMK, we recommend starting with PMK Overview and PMK SaaS Managed Architecture first. If you want to create a Platform9 Managed Kubernetes Free Tier account you can do so here.
PMK supports creating Kubernetes clusters with on-premises infrastructure or public cloud providers. You can create and manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across any of these environments.
Supported Infrastructure Types
PMK is able to run Kubernetes clusters across a variety of on-premises environments, or public clouds including:
- Edge locations - Use BareOS cluster type
- Data Centers running VMware, Linux servers, or OpenStack - Use BareOS cluster type
- AWS - Use the PMK native cloud provider for AWS or import an existing EKS cluster
- Azure - Use the PMK native cloud provider for Azure
- Google Cloud - Use BareOS cluster type
All of the supported infrastructure types share common system requirements and can be centrally managed by a single PMK SaaS Management Plane.
Quick Start For An On-Premises Cluster (Laptop, VM, Physical Machine)
PMK uses the term ‘BareOS’ to refer to your on-premises virtual or physical machines that you would like to use to create a Kubernetes cluster. Read What is BareOS to better understand the terminology.
Follow these requirements and guidelines to create a single node Kubernetes cluster using your laptop, a virtual machine, or a physical server.
- Step 1 BareOS Pre-requisites
- Step 2 Create Single Node BareOS Cluster
AWS Cluster Setup
PMK provides native integration with Amazon AWS to create Kubernetes clusters using AWS EC2 instances.
In this model, PMK manages the lifecycle of the nodes on EC2, Route53, ELB, EBS to create a fully production-ready Kubernetes cluster that can auto-scale based on workload requirements.
- Step 1 Generic Pre-requisites
- Step 2 AWS Prerequisites
- Step 2 Networking configuration is completed during the deployment of PMK clusters, so you do not need to follow any special networking pre-requisites
- Step 3 AWS Cloud Provider Management
- Step 4 Deploy AWS Cluster
Azure Cluster Setup
PMK also provides native integration with Microsoft Azure to create Kubernetes clusters using Azure VM instances.
In this model, PMK manages the lifecycle of the Azure VMs, Traffic manager, Application gateway and Azure managed disks to create a fully production-ready Kubernetes cluster that can auto-scale based on workload requirements.
- Step 1 Generic Pre-requisites
- Step 2 Azure Prerequisites
- Step 3 Networking configuration is completed during the deployment of PMK clusters, so you do not need to follow any special networking pre-requisites
- Step 4 Add Microsoft Azure Cloud Provider
- Step 5 Create Cluster on Azure