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Jorge O. Castro
on 15 February 2017

Deploying Kubernetes on bare metal

kubernetes MAAS

Fast forward to 6 minutes, 42 seconds to begin the demo.

In this demo Marco Ceppi deploys a fully functional Kubernetes cluster on 10 nodes.

If you’re interested in bare metal Kubernetes, we invite you to join us and other contributors in the sig-onprem community.

Not sure how to get started? Join us in our Getting started with the Canonical Distribution of Kubernetes webinar on the 22nd of February.

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