Improved Windows Kubernetes setup experience

README.md

This is a brief brain-dump of the investigations I've done into how to make Kubernetes easier to setup along with some options suggested by others in SIG-Windows.

Getting binaries on the machine

• aks-engine set precedence of putting things in c:\k. Is that the best decision? Should executables, logs and config be separated and ACLd more strongly?

Options:

• MSI - would need to be built along with binaries. Not useful for configuration management & transitions though
• PowerShell OneGet Provider - similar to what's done for Docker. Would find right URL and download kubernetes-node-...tgz, then extract it to the right location

Setup steps:

• expand archive
• register service
  • issue: logs? if kubelet doesn't start, how to troubleshoot it

Kubernetes Configuration Management

kubeadm

• issue: uses Linuxy paths and creates files under c:\var and c:\etc
• issue: adds Linux-only kubelet parameters

Full Deployment & Configuration management

• Possible solution: Ansible
• Possible solution: PowerShell DSC partial config
• Possible solution: Chef
• Possible solution: Puppet
• Possible solution: Vagrant