01-prerequisites.md

Prerequisites

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI)

This tutorial leverages the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to streamline provisioning of the compute infrastructure required to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster from the ground up.

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI) CLI

Install the OCI CLI

Follow the OCI CLI documentation to install and configure the oci command line utility.

Verify the OCI CLI version:

oci --version

Set a Default Region

This tutorial assumes a default region has been configured.

If you are using the oci command-line tool for the first time oci setup config is the easiest way to do this:

oci setup config

Running Commands in Parallel with tmux

tmux can be used to run commands on multiple compute instances at the same time. Labs in this tutorial may require running the same commands across multiple compute instances, in those cases consider using tmux and splitting a window into multiple panes with synchronize-panes enabled to speed up the provisioning process.

The use of tmux is optional and not required to complete this tutorial.

Enable synchronize-panes by pressing ctrl+b followed by shift+:. Next type set synchronize-panes on at the prompt. To disable synchronization: set synchronize-panes off.

Next: Installing the Client Tools