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Creating a Kubernetes Cluster

Below you will find examples of creating a small 3 node Kubernetes cluster to try NATS on multiple clouds.

Google Kubernetes Engine

Use gcloud to create a 3 node regional Kubernetes cluster on us-west2.

# Create a 3 node Kubernetes cluster. One node in each of the region's three zones.
gcloud container clusters create nats-k8s-cluster \
  --project $YOUR_GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT \
  --region us-west2 \
  --num-nodes 1 \
  --machine-type n1-standard-2

Note that since this is a regional cluster we are specifying --num-nodes 1 which will create a kubelet on 3 different zones. If you are creating a single-zone cluster but want 3 nodes then you have to specify --num-nodes 3.

Amazon Kubernetes Service

The eksctl is a very helpful tool to manage EKS clusters, you can find more docs on how to set it up here.

# Create 3 node Kubernetes cluster
eksctl create cluster --name nats-k8s-cluster \
  --nodes 3 \
  --node-type=t3.large \
  --region=eu-west-1

# Get the credentials for your cluster
eksctl utils write-kubeconfig --name $YOUR_EKS_NAME --region eu-west-1

Digital Ocean

You can use doctl to create a cluster as follows:

doctl kubernetes cluster create nats-k8s-nyc2 --count 3 --region nyc1

Azure Kubernetes Service

Using az you can create a cluster like this:

# In case not done already, register to use some services:
az login
az provider register -n Microsoft.Network
az provider register -n Microsoft.Storage
az provider register -n Microsoft.Compute
az provider register -n Microsoft.ContainerService

# Create resource group and 3 node cluster
az group create --name nats --location westus
az aks create   --resource-group nats --name nats  --node-count 3 --node-vm-size Standard_DS1_v2
az aks get-credentials --resource-group nats --name nats

Note In order to be able to access NATS externally you need to provision public IPs for your cluster installing the following component dgkanatsios/AksNodePublicIPController:

kubectl create -n kube-system -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dgkanatsios/AksNodePublicIPController/7846c78f77dc5cd4b43629bb5cb7ff3818594aee/deploy.yaml

After this component has been installed, eventually your cluster will be provided ExternalIPs that the NATS cluster can advertise to clients:

kubectl get nodes -o wide
NAME                       STATUS   ROLES   AGE     VERSION    INTERNAL-IP   EXTERNAL-IP      OS-IMAGE             KERNEL-VERSION      CONTAINER-RUNTIME
aks-nodepool1-18657977-0   Ready    agent   5d16h   v1.13.12   10.240.0.6    52.191.186.114   Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS   4.15.0-1060-azure   docker://3.0.7
aks-nodepool1-18657977-1   Ready    agent   5d17h   v1.13.12   10.240.0.4    52.229.11.82     Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS   4.15.0-1060-azure   docker://3.0.7
aks-nodepool1-18657977-2   Ready    agent   5d17h   v1.13.12   10.240.0.5    13.77.149.235    Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS   4.15.0-1060-azure   docker://3.0.7