error setting up august release in aws

crixo

I'm using an ubuntu 16.04 in aws free tier
I'm getting the following errors installing the master node

Installed - now to get Calico Project network plugin
[init] Using Kubernetes version: v1.15.1
[preflight] Running pre-flight checks
    [WARNING IsDockerSystemdCheck]: detected "cgroupfs" as the Docker cgroup driver. The recommended driver is "systemd". Please follow the guide at https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/cri/
error execution phase preflight: [preflight] Some fatal errors occurred:
    [ERROR NumCPU]: the number of available CPUs 1 is less than the required 2
[preflight] If you know what you are doing, you can make a check non-fatal with `--ignore-preflight-errors=...`
Running the steps explained at the end of the init output for you
cp: cannot stat '/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf': No such file or directory
chown: cannot access '/home/ubuntu/.kube/config': No such file or directory

Is the following error a blocking error?
[ERROR NumCPU]: the number of available CPUs 1 is less than the required 2

/etc/kubernetes/ has been created but admin.conf is missing
due to the missing config file I get the following error later on on the script execution

The connection to the server localhost:8080 was refused - did you specify the right host or port?

chrispokorni

Hi @crixo,
Such an error is expected if the VM/EC2 instance is not sized accordingly. 2 CPUs and about 8 GB of memory are recommended node sizes when working with cloud instances. However, AWS Free Tier may limit you to 1 CPU EC2 instances.
You would not be limited on GCP free tier, so you'd be able to create 2 CPU VMs.
The following errors are all related to the first one - without enough CPU Kubernetes processes cannot be configured and initialized properly.

Regards,
-Chris

crixo

Hi @chrispokorni, thanks a lot. Using a VM w/ 2 CPU solved the issue. I'm not sure if that requirement applies to master node(s) only or also to workers. k8s documentation does not explicitly specify if the 2 cpu rules applies to both node types

seetha33tmr

@crixo Did you end up using GCP to get VM with 2 CPU on free trial?