Introduction
In this post, I'll walk you through deploying a production-ready Kubernetes cluster on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 using kubeadm. This lab was inspired by Anthony E. Nocentino's excellent Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): Using kubadm to Install a Basic Cluster training course, which is part of the official Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) path on Pluralsight.
⭐ Shout-out: Anthony is a fantastic trainer! His course uses Ubuntu 22.04 as the base OS. I adapted his approach to work on RHEL 10, adding some additional considerations specific to Red Hat's ecosystem.
One intentional decision in this setup: I deployed Kubernetes v1.35 and CRI-O v1.35, which wasn't the latest version available at installation time.
This was purposeful. Anthony's course includes a dedicated section on upgrading clusters, and using a slightly older baseline makes that learning path clearer.
