This document is an overview of setting up a Kubernetes cluster on three Ubuntu 18.04 nodes. The three nodes are described as follows with the following components installed:
Kubernetes is made up of multiple components that make up a cluster. Many of the components are actually pods in the cluster running under kube-system
. The following components make up the k8s control plane
etcd is a synchronized data store for storing and sharing the cluster state across nodes in the cluster