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Kubernetes on Linux Fedora OS

azadsolanki
azadsolanki Posts: 11
edited December 2025 in LFS258 Class Forum

Hi there,

With the goal to become a Kubernetes/SRE expert, I have bought a Linux Fedora OS based machine (64GB RAM) and setup my dev environment - podman, kind etc. I intend to use this set up as the primary local dev environment over GKE cluster for my CKA/CKAD/CKS goals.

Seeking an expert opinion to evaluate this setup. Will I need GKE or the current setup is enough to develop the skin in the game.

Thank you!
Azad

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  • luisviveropena
    luisviveropena Posts: 1,307

    Moving this post to LFS258 so the student can reach the Kubernetes experts.

    Luis.

  • chrispokorni
    chrispokorni Posts: 2,579

    Hi @azadsolanki,

    Each author sets system requirements for their respective courses based on the technologies covered by the course. This includes specs for virtual machines provisioned through a local hypervisor, specs to provision cloud VMs, a recommended guest OS distribution and release for the VMs, accounts on one or multiple cloud platforms, one or multiple containerization tools - with accounts to one or multiple container image registries. At times a more complex software stack may also be part of the requirements.

    While it is difficult to give you a clear yes/no answer, keep in mind that our learners complete training on a wide range of workstations natively running popular Linux distributions, macOS, and Windows. The course lab environments are designed to be portable, reproducible on a few popular OSes.

    Once you enroll in a course, you will have access to all necessary instructions for environment setup for that particular course. In addition, each course is accompanied by a dedicated discussions forum where our instructors can provide additional assistance.

    Regards,
    -Chris

  • azadsolanki
    azadsolanki Posts: 11

    I see. Seems like there is no clear yes/no. Experiment and find out kind of scenario it is.
    I will use both then - current setup + GKE.

    Thank you!

  • azadsolanki
    azadsolanki Posts: 11

    The course Lab instructions are tested on Ubuntu, so you will encounter issues in installing Kubeadm on Fedora.

    Follow along https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/using-kubernetes-kubeadm/ and save some troubleshooting time.

  • chrispokorni
    chrispokorni Posts: 2,579

    Hi @azadsolanki,

    As the lab guide recommends two distinct VMs to host the virtual lab environment (a much safer solution as opposed to installing Kubernetes components directly on the native OS of your host system), if powered by Fedora as a guest OS then install and config instructions and dependencies need to be adapted accordingly.

    Regards,
    -Chris

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