RKE2 the Hard Way: Part 11 – Cluster Verification and Access

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Part 11 – Cluster Verification and Access

Congratulations! You’ve reached the final part of the “RKE2 the Hard Way” training series. At this point, we have:

Set up containerd and kubelet on all nodes
Generated all the necessary TLS certificates
Deployed etcd, kube-apiserver, kube-controller-manager, and kube-scheduler as static pods
Configured kubelet and kube-proxy on worker nodes
Installed Cilium CNI for pod networking
Deployed CoreDNS for cluster DNS resolution
Installed Ingress Nginx for external access

Now, let’s verify that everything is working correctly and set up kubectl for convenient cluster access.