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Installing Kubernetes in CentOS 7 with no previous experience

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Lately I have been working with Kubernetes during the preparation of a new course. In the past, when I needed a Kubernetes cluster I used one of the cloud providers. GCP is specially good for Kubernetes but my trial account run out. Besides, this course requires me to do some things with VMware, so I had to create my own environment a few times in the lab on top of vSphere. During this time, I couldn’t find any other references that worked for me 100% so I decided to write this article with the few tricks that I have learnt A word of caution, during this process you will be doing things like lowering the security of your virtual machines so that the cluster installs more easily. So please do use this procedure only for development environments and at your own risk To understand what you are doing it helps to be a little bit familiar with the Kubernetes architecture. You are going to need one Virtual Machine for every not you want in your cluster. There are two types of nodes: M