1-prereqs.md

Pre-reqs

You will need to install the following to follow along with this tutorial:

• git
• make
• Go v1.19
• Kubebuilder v3.6.0
• Docker
  • If you are using a Mac then please use Docker Desktop v4.12 or less. There is an issue with v4.13 due to a change to the socket location.
• Tilt
• Kubectl
• Kustomize
• kind
• clusterctl

NOTE: we are not using v3.7.0 for Kubebuilder due to an issue with Apple M1 Silicon

System pre-reqs

Under the hood, we will use the kubeadm control plane provider and kubeadm bootstrap provider for bootstrapping a Kubernetes node. So it is recommended to have the same system requirements as kubeadm to avoid any kubeadm init or kubeadm join failures. For a detailed list of kubeadm pre-reqs, refer the official documentation here.

At the minimum,

• 2 GB or more of RAM per machine
• 2 CPUs or more