Bare-metal Kubernetes with Kubeadm, NGINX ingress controller and HAProxy

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Here are some of my notes for setting up a “bare-metal” Kubernetes (k8s) cluster. I put bare-metal in double quotes because I actually used AWS EC2 instances but only as plain VMs, with the goal of being able to deploy this scenario in any cloud or on-premise infrastructure, without depending on k8s cloud services such as EKS, AKS or GKE. I chose Kubeadm as the…