Installation Bugs

[fabltd]

Following this guide:

https://docs.technotim.live/posts/k3s-etcd-ansible/

The following issues were noted:

First create the VMS with this doc:

https://docs.technotim.live/posts/cloud-init-cloud-image/

Issue 1:
qm create 8000 --memory 2048 --core 2 --name ubuntu-cloud --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0

This creates a VM that doesn't really have enough memory todo much once K3s is running. Recommend changing to 4GB

Issue 2:

qm importdisk 8000 focal-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-lvm

The disk that is created is too small to install K3s. Disk size needs to be increased I used 32GB

Issue 3:

DO NOT START YOUR VM

Add here that you need to configure cloud init settings in the GUI. I missed this step first time.

Issue 4:

You may want to start your VM as I did to add the Proxmox VM agent. When starting a VM it gets issued a machine ID.
Prior to shuting down the VM the machine ID needs to be reset

BUG:

You suggest:

sudo rm -f /etc/machine-id
sudo rm -f /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

This wil break your Ubnuntu installation! Do not delete /etc/machine-id truncate it with:

truncate -s 0 /etc/machine-id /var/lib/dbus/machine-id

The machine-id file does not get created if it is deleted, but it will get populated with a new value if it is empty. If the machine-id is not preset networking will fail to start.

Reference: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1508766

Return to creating the K3s witj Ansible:

Issue1:

cp -R k3s-ansible/inventory/sample inventory/my-cluster

There needs to be a setup where you create a directory for you files. The folder inventory is not present until you create it.

Issue2:

Edit inventory/my-cluster/group_vars/all.yml

When editing this file if you change to the latest verison if K3s by changing this line:

k3s_version: v1.23.4+k3s1.

It will break. V 1.24 appears not to work? Any thoughts.

Suggestion:

Prior to running:

ansible-playbook ./playbooks/reset.yml -i ./inventory/my-cluster/hosts.ini

Run:

ansible all -m ping -i ./inventory/my-cluster/hosts.ini

This is due to a fresh install of Ansible appearing to fail to connect until you have agrres to adding the host to knowhosts.

[timothystewart6]

can you please please post everything that was in the in the issue template?

[timothystewart6]

Upgraded k3s, and others, and improved docs. This should all be resolved. Please clone and try again.

https://docs.technotim.live/posts/k3s-etcd-ansible/