Managing Kubernetes in Air Gap/Offline Environments

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Covers approaches for installing, upgrading and managing Kubernetes without internet access, focusing on bare-metal deployments. Describes using Kubespray for cluster provisioning and Harbor for hosting container images/artifacts to support offline infrastructure.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:25Agenda
3. 1:16Challenging and a quite common requirement
4. 2:03Kubeadm images list
5. 5:04Kubeadm V1.12 Support
6. 6:21Kubeadm Air Gap/Offline install
7. 10:49Trusted Cloud Native Registry - Harbor
8. 11:09Harbor Architecture
9. 11:42Typical Use Cases
10. 12:10Shipping "Binaries"
11. 13:07Kubespray at a glance
12. 13:37Deployment workflow
13. 15:10Local LB (default)
14. 15:46User options
15. 16:10Offline options
16. 17:05Air /Gap options
17. 20:11Community
18. 21:12Air Gap/Offline: High Availability Install
19. 22:14Lifecycle of cluster operations
20. 23:13New cluster
21. 23:48Scale node
22. 24:00Scale master
23. 25:17Upgrade cluster
24. 26:10Remove node and Uninstall cluster

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