Kubeflow Operations Guide

Chapter 4. Installing Kubeflow On-Premise

In this chapter we take a look at the basics for installing Kubeflow on an existing on-premise Kubernetes cluster. The assumption in this chapter is that you already have some background knowledge with Kubernetes and that you also have access to an existing Kubernetes cluster either on-premise or managed in the cloud. There are also options for learning environments such as Minikube, kubeadm-dind.

We also assume that you’re comfortable with software infrastructure install processes and can work from a command-line interface. If you need a quick refresher, in the next section we review some basic commands for Kubernetes.

Kubernetes Operations from the Command Line

Given that Kubeflow is tightly integrated with Kubernetes, we need to know a few Kubernetes core commands to perform any type of install. In this section we review the commands:

• kubectl
• docker

This chapter will give you the specifics around what parts of Kubernetes we need to worry about for an on-premise install. Let’s start out by getting some of our core command-line tools installed.

Installing kubectl

kubectl controls the Kubernetes cluster manager and is a command-line interface for running commands against Kubernetes clusters. We use kubectl to deploy and manage applications on Kubernetes. Using kubectl, we can:

• Inspect cluster resources
• Create components
• Delete components
• Update components

For a more complete list of functions in kubectl, check out this cheat sheet ...