kubeadm Cluster Creation Internals: From Self-Hosting to Upgradability and HA

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kubeadm bootstraps a minimal, best-practice cluster by generating a root CA and per-component certificates, writing static pod manifests that the kubelet starts, and uploading cluster state into a ConfigMap so upgrades know current settings. It supports join via a Bootstrap Token plus CSR auto-approve, and can convert static control plane pods to self-hosted control plane via API-managed pods so upgrades roll through Kubernetes. Concrete tools: kubeadm upgrade plan/apply, client cert rotation and phase-based cluster creation.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 0:40Agenda
3. 1:39kubeadm
4. 6:35Design takeaways
5. 9:23Component architecture
6. 10:30qubit
7. 14:30atomic
8. 15:22TLS
9. 21:12SelfHosting
10. 22:10SelfHosting Sequence Diagram
11. 23:57Upgrading Clusters

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