[fndrplayer13]

Great set of resources -- I just went through the process of defining a terraform cluster in AWS over the past few weeks, though I'm leveraging the k8s Saltbase installer for the master and nodes.

I'm curious, why no mention of AWS as a provider for roll-your-own? Is this a cost thing?

Also, I get the feeling that Ubuntu is _not_ a first class citizen of the k8s ecosystem, but perhaps my newness to the ecosystem is to blame here. The Saltbase installer, for example, only supports Debian and RHEL distros, `kops` prefers Debian, and the documentation for cluster deployments on kubernetes.io and elsewhere also seems to be somewhat suggestive of Debian and Core OS. Perhaps thats just a mistaken interpretation on my part. I'm curious what other peoples thoughts on this topic are!

[dustinkirkland]

Ubuntu is absolutely a 1st class citizen in the K8s Ecosystem!

The front page of https://kubernetes.io/docs/ has a bullet that links to a super simple way to deploy Kubernetes to Ubuntu on any of [localhost, baremetal cluster, public cloud, private cloud]!

See:

* Installing Kubernetes on Ubuntu: Deploy a Kubernetes cluster on-premise, baremetal, cloud providers, or localhost with Charms and conjure-up.

[justinsb]

kops doesn't necessarily prefer debian - we support Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS/RHEL, CoreOS and Google's Container OS. One of the outputs of the Kubernetes-on-AWS efforts is an AMI that is "Kubernetes Optimized" - a 4.4 kernel, Docker pre-installed, lots of inodes etc. That AMI _is_ based on Debian, hence the suggestion is that if you don't otherwise care (and my hope is that eventually you won't), that you should probably just use that AMI. But if you do have a preference, by all means use your distro of choice.

[rdli]

We found that setting up Kube on AWS in a prod-ready way was sufficiently complex enough that we wrote up some docs on it: https://www.datawire.io/guide/infrastructure/setting-kuberne..., hoping it would be helpful.

[fndrplayer13]

I appreciate the responses everyone. Glad to be set straight on some of this stuff.