Deploy Kubernetes on Proxmox: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide
Is your home lab outgrowing Docker? One crashed Mini-PC shouldn't take down your entire network. In this video, we’re moving past the basics and building a full-scale, production-ready Kubernetes cluster directly on Proxmox VE.
We aren't taking shortcuts with K3s or Minikube. In this How to Deploy Kubernetes on Proxmox: The Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide video we are building the "real deal" propare k8s cluster - the same architecture used by tech giants to scale the internet. Whether you want a self-healing media server or you're training for a career in DevOps, this step-by-step guide covers the "how" and the "why" behind every command.
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0:00 Kubernetes on Proxmox guide
4:45 Prepare a set of static ip addresses on router
6:40 Download Ubuntu 26.04 LTS iso image to Proxmox
8:30 Create 1 kubernetes master node and 2 worker node VMs
12:10 qm create commands for our virtual machines
14:10 Installation process for each VM
15:15 Configure static ip for Kubernetes node
24:15 Use TMUX to run the same command on all servers
26:55 Install qemu-guest-agent
27:40 disable swap on each VM
29:00 Check /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts files
29:35 enable overlay and br_netfilter kernel modules
31:10 add net.bridge system parameters
32:35 Install containerd
33:15 Create default configuration for containerd
34:00 Set SystemdCgroup in config.toml file
35:15 Add Kubernetes repository
35:30 kubelet kubeadm and kubectl components installation
38:40 Initialize Kubernetes cluster
39:05 CNI – Container Network Interface
40:45 kubeadm join command
41:25 kubeadm token create command
42:20 add Flannel CNI
42:50 Join worker nodes to k8s cluster
45:25 Add MetalLB load balancer service
47:55 Add pool of static ip’s to MetalLB
50:25 Final test – run nginx load balancer service in Kubernetes
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