[kitwalker12]

It's pretty complicated with GCE itself. for GCE, I followed this http://kubernetes.io/v1.0/docs/getting-started-guides/gce.ht... guide.

I eventually wanted to set it up in Rackspace where my company cloud lives. I used corekube(https://github.com/metral/corekube) heat templates to set it up but the way to add more minions to the cluster wasn't simple. On top of that there's this complicated networking I have to setup on rackspace, because k8s runs in its own flannel subnet which is actually overlayed on top of an isolated rackspace private subnet. To access the API externally I had to do some NAT manipulation to interface that private subnet to the rackspace public IP just to get the guestbook example working. Dunno how I'd have managed that with a more complex setup of multiple services.

[mkulke]

Corekube is somewhat complex template (and not supported by kubernetes currently). Just attempt to roll your own, it's actually not that hard. You can use the official coreos "getting started" cloud-config files as a starting point. Etcd & flannel are required, the rest is just wiring a set of binaries.

Adding nodes is pretty straightforward, you just create a server with the proper cloud-config, they should auto-register at the master. A serious setup, however, involves using security groups/private networks and load balancers, also cinder is not supported as a volume backend yet.

[kitwalker12]

yeah. I actually abandoned corekube and followed this guide (https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/blob/maste...) from the main repo. In the end it was the networking that wore me down.