Ubuntu 16.04 and kubeadm gets you from zero to k8s in about a 4 hours or so.
I recently gave up trying to fight the uphill battle of doing things with CoreOS and tectonic in my homelab. Their requirements are fine if you have high end server class hardware to spare (matchbox /requires/ IPMI).
Started to go the NixOS route, but found it more infuriating than trying to setup Tectonic, mostly because their recipe for k8s is super old.
In the end, I gave up trying to use the big tools and fell back to Ubuntu and kubeadm. Started at 8am and ended at around noon with a fully functional 9 node cluster running v1.6 with RBAC and TLS enabled by default.
I recently gave up trying to fight the uphill battle of doing things with CoreOS and tectonic in my homelab. Their requirements are fine if you have high end server class hardware to spare (matchbox /requires/ IPMI).
Started to go the NixOS route, but found it more infuriating than trying to setup Tectonic, mostly because their recipe for k8s is super old.
In the end, I gave up trying to use the big tools and fell back to Ubuntu and kubeadm. Started at 8am and ended at around noon with a fully functional 9 node cluster running v1.6 with RBAC and TLS enabled by default.