Getting Started with kOps on DigitalOcean

• kops version >= 1.9 installed
• DigitalOcean access token
• DigitalOcean domain. To point your domain registrar to DigitalOcean’s nameservers follow
• Setup your SSH key

Environment Variables

It is important to set the following environment variables:

Creating a Multi-Master HA Cluster

In the below example, should be replaced with any cluster name that ends with such that a gossip based cluster is created. Ensure the master-count is odd-numbered. A load balancer is created dynamically front-facing the master instances.

If you want to create a new VPC for running your kops cluster, specify the network-cidr as below.

Features Still in Development

Next steps

Now that you have a working kOps cluster, read through the to learn more about how to configure kOps for production workloads.