STEP 2 - Install Ansible

NOTE - the commands in this section and in all remaining sections of this guide assume that the root user is used. For ease we suggest using the root user for the Kubernetes and Akash Provider install. If a non-root user is used instead, minor command adjustments may be necessary such as using sudo command prefixes and updating the home directory in command syntaxes.

When you launch Kubespray it will use an Ansible playbook to deploy a Kubernetes cluster. In this step we will install Ansible.

Depending on your operating system it may be necessary to install OS patches, pip3, and virtualenv. Example steps for a Ubuntu OS are detailed below.

apt-get update ; apt-get install -y python3-pip virtualenv

Within the kubespray directory use the following commands for the purpose of:

Opening a Python virtual environment for the Ansible install
Installing Ansible and other necessary packages specified in the requirements.txt file
Please remember to cd kubespray AND source venv/bin/activate - as detailed in the code block below - each time you want to use the ansible-playbook commands in upcoming sections.

cd ~/kubespray

virtualenv --python=python3 venv

source venv/bin/activate

pip3 install -r requirements.txt