PLEASE NOTE: This document applies to the HEAD of the source tree
If you are using a released version of Kubernetes, you should
refer to the docs that go with that version.
The latest release of this document can be found
[here](http://releases.k8s.io/release-1.1/docs/getting-started-guides/docker-multinode.md).
Documentation for other releases can be found at
[releases.k8s.io](http://releases.k8s.io).
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Running Multi-Node Kubernetes Using Docker
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_Note_:
These instructions are somewhat significantly more advanced than the [single node](docker.md) instructions. If you are
interested in just starting to explore Kubernetes, we recommend that you start there.
_Note_:
There is a [bug](https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/14106) in Docker 1.7.0 that prevents this from working correctly.
Please install Docker 1.6.2 or Docker 1.7.1.
**Table of Contents**
- [Prerequisites](#prerequisites)
- [Overview](#overview)
- [Bootstrap Docker](#bootstrap-docker)
- [Master Node](#master-node)
- [Adding a worker node](#adding-a-worker-node)
- [Deploy a DNS](#deploy-a-dns)
- [Testing your cluster](#testing-your-cluster)
## Prerequisites
1. You need a machine with docker of right version installed.
## Overview
This guide will set up a 2-node Kubernetes cluster, consisting of a _master_ node which hosts the API server and orchestrates work
and a _worker_ node which receives work from the master. You can repeat the process of adding worker nodes an arbitrary number of
times to create larger clusters.
Here's a diagram of what the final result will look like:
### Bootstrap Docker
This guide also uses a pattern of running two instances of the Docker daemon
1) A _bootstrap_ Docker instance which is used to start system daemons like `flanneld` and `etcd`
2) A _main_ Docker instance which is used for the Kubernetes infrastructure and user's scheduled containers
This pattern is necessary because the `flannel` daemon is responsible for setting up and managing the network that interconnects
all of the Docker containers created by Kubernetes. To achieve this, it must run outside of the _main_ Docker daemon. However,
it is still useful to use containers for deployment and management, so we create a simpler _bootstrap_ daemon to achieve this.
You can specify k8s version on very node before install:
```
export K8S_VERSION=
```
Otherwise, we'll use latest `hyperkube` image as default k8s version.
## Master Node
The first step in the process is to initialize the master node.
Clone the Kubernetes repo, and run [master.sh](docker-multinode/master.sh) on the master machine with root:
```sh
cd kubernetes/docs/getting-started-guides/docker-multinode/
./master.sh
```
`Master done!`
See [here](docker-multinode/master.md) for detailed instructions explanation.
## Adding a worker node
Once your master is up and running you can add one or more workers on different machines.
Clone the Kubernetes repo, and run [worker.sh](docker-multinode/worker.sh) on the worker machine with root:
```sh
export MASTER_IP=
cd kubernetes/docs/getting-started-guides/docker-multinode/
./worker.sh
```
`Worker done!`
See [here](docker-multinode/worker.md) for detailed instructions explanation.
## Deploy a DNS
See [here](docker-multinode/deployDNS.md) for instructions.
## Testing your cluster
Once your cluster has been created you can [test it out](docker-multinode/testing.md)
For more complete applications, please look in the [examples directory](../../examples/)
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