In order to provision a Kubernetes cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, you need to prepare the OCI tenancy and create a compartment with appropriate network configuration and associated resources. All set up can be performed through the console – but this is quite tedious, error prone and outright stupid if you have to go through these steps more than once. I should know – I went through them multiple times.
In a previous article I described how easy it is to get going with the OCI CLI (using a Docker container) and in this article I will share the OCI CLI statements that should be executed in order to fully prepare the OCI tenancy for subsequently provisioning the OKE Cluster. (OKE = Oracle Kubernetes Engine). The article “Create OKE Kubernetes Cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure” will subsequently take you through the steps of creating an K8S instance leveraging the artifacts created in this article.
Assuming you have the OCI CLI configured with a user with the right privileges connecting to the target OCI tenancy, below you will find the steps to perform through the OCI to create all artifacts that are required in order before an OKE Cluster can be created. After providing with the step by step commands, I will also show you the beginnings of a Shell script that will execute all individual steps automatically,saving quite a bit of manual work.
Step by Steps Commands
At this point, all resourced are created and you can attempt the provisioning of the OKE Cluster, either through the Console or trough the CLI or the REST API.
(beginning of a) Shell Script for Provisioning the Required OCI resources for an OKE Cluster Instance
Executing all these steps manually and constantly exporting environment variable is still a lot of work. The next level of automation is to take these individual steps and create a Shell script out of them. Below you will find that script – or at least the beginning of one, as I have not yet had the time to complete it.
Resources
Blog article: Create OKE Kubernetes Cluster on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – including Service Request to increase limit https://technology.amis.nl/2018/10/16/create-oke-kubernetes-cluster-on-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-including-service-request-to-increase-limit/
Blog article: Running OCI CLI using Docker container – https://technology.amis.nl/2018/10/14/get-going-quickly-with-command-line-interface-for-oracle-cloud-infrastructure-using-docker-container/
First steps with Oracle Kubernetes Engine–the managed Kubernetes Cloud Service – https://technology.amis.nl/2018/05/25/first-steps-with-oracle-kubernetes-engine-the-managed-kubernetes-cloud-service/
OCI Docs Preparing for Container Engine for Kubernetes- https://docs.cloud.oracle.com/iaas/Content/ContEng/Concepts/contengprerequisites.htm?tocpath=Services%7CContainer%20Engine%7CPreparing%20for%20Container%20Engine%20for%20Kubernetes%7C_____0
