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[Lab Notes] Kubernetes the Hard Way, For Real This Time (Step 04)

Original guide: 04-certificate-authority.md Thoughts I had while doing this Before the actual step though, here are some stuff I learned or was thinking about along the way: Kubernetes is starting to feel like a miniaturized version of an entire IT infrastructure.

[Lab Notes] Kubernetes the Hard Way, For Real This Time (Step 04)

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Original guide: 04-certificate-authority.md Thoughts I had while doing this Before the actual step though, here are some stuff I learned or was thinking about along the way:

Kubernetes is starting to feel like a miniaturized version of an entire IT infrastructure.

Every Kubernetes component (API server, kubelet, etc.) is like another service on the network, and they all need to trust each other the same way any two servers would.

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Original guide: 04-certificate-authority.md Thoughts I had while doing this Before the actual step though, here are some stuff I learned or was thinking about along the way: Kubernetes is starting to feel like a miniaturized version of an entire IT infrastructure. Every Kubernetes component (API server, kubelet, etc.) is like another service on the network, and they all need to trust each other the same way any two servers would.

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  • Continuing my Kubernetes the Hard Way homelab build on Proxmox.

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Steps 01-03 are already done, this covers step 04. It's like Kubernetes took that same idea and asked "hey we already abstracted compute, why not abstract the whole infrastructure?" Generating and installing all these certs felt exactly like setting up TLS between a bunch of servers so they can trust each other.

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