Introduction Welcome back to the Kubernetes tutorial series! Now that our base image and local server are ready, it’s time for the real action—Kubernetes cluster setup with Flannel. I'll spin up one Kubernetes master and 4 worker nodes, forming a local Kubernetes cluster that’s ready for real workloads. No more theory—let’s build something real! 🚀 Clone baseimage to k8s-1 as The Kubernetes VM Base Image Before jump on our Kubernetes cluster setup, let's start from my Mac's terminal, clone from Base Image - Rocky 9 as k8s-base: ❯ vmrun clone /Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual\ Machines.localized/baseimage-rocky9.vmwarevm/baseimage-rocky9.vmx /Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual\ Machines.localized/k8s-1.vmwarevm/k8s-1.vmx full ❯ sed -i '' 's/displayName = "Clone of baseimage-rocky9"/displayName = "k8s-1"/' "/Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual Machines.localized/k8s-1.vmwarevm/k8s-1.vmx" Make sure you've stopped the baseimage VM, start the k8s-base VM. The steps here I've mentioned details in Part 2, in short, after above command, we need to rescan in VMFusion and SSH as root into the k8s-base using the IP172.16.211.3 of the base VM, preapre the input file /opt/share_tools/init_data/k8s-1_vm_input.json: { "hostname": "k8s-1", "ip": "172.16.8.11", "subnet": "24", "gateway": "172.16.211.2", "dns1": "172.16.211.100", "dns2": "8.8.8.8", "domain": "dev.geekcoding101local.com", "ansible_key_path": "~/.ssh/ansible_ed25519", "ssh_key_path": "~/.ssh/ssh_ed25519" } Then using VMFusion console to login into the VM, perform below command to generate SSH keys and setup networking: ansible-playbook /opt/share_tools/bin/configure_vm.yml -e "input_file_path=/opt/share_tools/init_data/k8s-1_vm_input.json" Now I can connect from SSH passwordlessly via the new IP 172.16.8.11. Test DNS Please note here is testing our local DNS server to ensure it's working in our Kubernetes cluster setup. But it's not going to replace CoreDNS... Anyway, ensure the DNS server localserver(172.16.211.100) we setup in Part 2 is running. Ensure the 172.16.211.100 is on top of  /etc/resolv.conf , should…

Introduction Hey there! Ready to take this Kubernetes setup to the next level? 🚀 In Part 1, we got our base VM image up and running—nice work! Now, in Part 2, I am going to clone that image to set up a local server as a DNS server and NTP server. I was considering to incorporate the steps to setup Kubernetes master and worker nodes, but seems too much. Anyway, a real cluster is coming soon! 😎 Excited? Let’s dive in and make some magic happen. 🔥 Create localserver VM Clone from Base Image Rocky 9 vmrun clone /Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual\ Machines.localized/baseimage-rocky9.vmwarevm/baseimage-rocky9.vmx /Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual\ Machines.localized/localserver.vmwarevm/localserver.vmx full sed -i '' 's/displayName = "Clone of baseimage-rocky9"/displayName = "localserver"/' "/Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual Machines.localized/localserver.vmwarevm/localserver.vmx" cat "/Users/geekcoding101.com/Virtual Machines.localized/localserver.vmwarevm/localserver.vmx" | grep disp Above commands is to clone the base VM image (display name in VMFusion is Clone of baseimage-rocky9) as a new one, then update the display name of the new VM to localserver instead of Clone of baseimage-rocky9. Now, you probably need to run a scan in VMware Fusion to see the newly added VM: Customize the Local Server VM First, stop the baseimage VM and start the localserver VM to avoid network conflict. Now we can SSH as root into the localserver VM by using the IP172.16.211.3 of the base VM. Remember the script /opt/share_tools/bin/configure_vm.yml we created in Ultimate Kubernetes Tutorial - Setting Up a Thriving Multi-Node Cluster on Mac: Part 1. Let's preapre the input file /opt/share_tools/init_data/localserver_vm_input.json: { "hostname": "localserver", "ip": "172.16.211.100", "subnet": "24", "gateway": "172.16.211.2", "dns1": "8.8.8.8", "dns2": "8.8.4.4", "domain": "dev.geekcoding101local.com", "ansible_key_path": "~/.ssh/ansible_ed25519", "ssh_key_path": "~/.ssh/ssh_ed25519" } I…