<Guest Post from Fabrizio Pandini> One of the ingredients of the magical art of high availability in Kubernetes is the leader election of control plane components. Leader election, in simple words, is the mechanism that guarantees that only one instance of the kube-scheduler — or one instance of the kube-controller-manager…

kubeadm init is a simple and effective way to spin up a Kubernetes cluster. In fact, many of the popular Kubernetes installers are switching to kubeadm. However, If you’re interested in understanding what’s happening under the covers, then new kubeadm init phase command comes into the scene. So why would…