Week 2: Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster

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Competition instructions for the Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) 2024 Student Cluster Compettion (SCC). Which is hosted by the National Integrated Cyber Infrastructure Systems (NICIS), a division of the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR).

https://scc.chpc.ac.za/

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Week 2: Deploying a Kubernetes Cluster #172

Open nyameko opened 2 weeks ago

nyameko commented 2 weeks ago

Week 2: Familiarize yourselves with the Kubernetes Cluster Deployment Process

Topics: Install, configure and test a number of power / CPU frequency management tools.
Tasks:
- Configure the system software and libraries needed to run HPL
- Familiarize yourselves with the following concepts
  - Container Runtime
  - Master Nodes
  - Worker Nodes
  - Control Plane
  - Cgroup Drivers
  - Pod
  - Kubelet
- Prepare a table and compare (PROS vs CONS) the following Kubernetes Deployment Methods:
- Kubectl
- Minikube
- MicroK8s
- K3s
- Kubeadm
- If you have a personal laptop / desktop computer running Linux, test the above tools on your personal machine as well. Disable any daemons associated with the above tools.

nyameko commented 5 days ago

Hi Team,

I hope that finals and all the other end-of-year school work is going well.

If you guys have any questions, do not hesitate to ask. If you would like to arrange short catchup or status update meetings, let me know.

How are you progressing with the project?

Please submit your Pull / Merge Request well before the deadline so that we can make sure it will be in an acceptable format.

@Talhahpatelia, @Kapil-Ramlall, @PotlakoAlbert, @seph-ora and @reinhardjvv .

Kapil-Ramlall commented 2 days ago

Hello Nyameko,

We hope that you are well. Things are going well for us. I think we will arrange a meeting once we have an attempt at a Kubernetes cluster running.

We are progressing slower than anticipated but are still on track. We have just finished the content of Week 2 and are now going to set up using the Kubernetes cluster using the requested software in the Week 3 instructions.

We will try and get it in as early as possible. When do you think we should aim to release the first draft pull request?

nyameko commented 2 days ago

Hi @Kapil-Ramlall and Team,

Think of this exercise as an iterative process. So get your feature-branch setup as soon as possible, and make sure to keep it synchronized / updated relative to dev.

For now, think of the overall planing and structure which will help with your planning and progress (i.e. even if you have thought of the specific content yet, have: headings and subheadings etc... for the sections you plan on writing and then breakup and distribute these workloads amongst the team).

This feature-branch can be a private fork on any of your Github accounts, if you'd like me to be involved, then just add me (as well as the rest of your team and mentor) as a collaborator. Then we can continue to work on that feature-branch until it's ready for a merge.

Good Luck!