Using Kubernetes on Fedora

Bradley G Smith, Version F37,F38,F39,F40,rawhide Last review: 2024-07-27

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Overview

This guide provides information about Kubernetes and the Kubernetes rpms available from Fedora.

All currently supported versions of Kubernetes are available in each Fedora release (subject to a possible Golang language constraint).

A short guide on creating a Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm is included, as a short introduction to Kubernetes for those new to this technology stack.

The guide also touches on an alternative source for Kubernetes rpms available in COPR and potential uses.

What is Kubernetes?

Kubernetes is an "open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications" on one or more machines. Kubernetes automates many of the tasks necessary to deploy, manage, and scale applications that are running as a container. This automation is vital when managing applications in data center or cloud environment where there are 100’s or 1000’s of machines and a corresponding complexity in numbers of applications.Fedora provides several technologies, in addition to Kubernetes, that run containers such as Docker or Podman.

Kubernetes is now at the center of a vast ecosystem of products and services (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) that help organizations create, install, run, manage and secure container-based applications and services at any possible scale.

Kubernetes can be used in a home lab on a single machine, a small cluster for home or business automation, edge-based services and applications in remote offices or enterprise scale production workloads in the cloud.

This guide is focused on the Kubernetes rpms available from Fedora and using dnf and the command line to install these rpms on Fedora and create a basic cluster using kubeadm. A short section on versioned rpms for CRI-O and link:https://github.com/kuberb etes/cri-tools[CRI-Tools] is included.

Please visit the Fedora Quick Docs Virtualization Guide to learn more about containers and other virtualization technologies and their availability in Fedora.