Pre-requisites

Before deploying Kubernetes Clusters with PCD, ensure the following prerequisites are met:

Infrastructure & Environment

• PCD Installation, a PCD installation can be Platform9 managed PCD SaaS deployment or on-prem deployment

• PCD Virtualized Cluster Blueprint configured with Hosts and ready to create Virtual Machines

• Storage Configured in Virtualized Cluster

• Enough resource capacity and quota available to your user to create VMs in your PCD Tenant.

Networking & Connectivity

• Networks And Ports or Physical Network created in PCD for Kubernetes Node VMs networking.

• The default pod CIDR for PCD Kubernetes cluster is 10.244.0.0/16 and default service CIDR is 10.96.0.0/16. These must not overlap with PCD Virtualization private networks.

• "Port Security" must be enabled on the underlying network to allow for proper traffic filtering and security group application.

• Clusters require a direct connection to the internet. Please note that network proxies are not supported at this time.

Images & Access

• Cluster API compliant Operating System Image uploaded into Image Library and Images specific to Kubernetes version you want to deploy. See more details here: Kubernetes Operating System Image Management

• A SSH key named default created in the PCD. This SSH key is bootstrapped into the worker nodes and can be used to access the nodes via CLI. Go to the Virtualized Clusters > Access & security > SSH keys page and add your key here by clicking on Import SSH Key.