While planning the deployment of an AWS-based Mirantis Container Cloud cluster with Mirantis Kubernetes Engine, consider the requirements described below.
Warning
Some of the AWS features required for Container Cloud may not be included into your AWS account quota. Therefore, carefully consider the AWS fees applied to your account that may increase for the Container Cloud infrastructure.
Resource |
Bootstrap cluster 0 |
Management cluster |
Managed cluster |
Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
# of nodes |
1 |
3 (HA) |
5 (6 with StackLight HA) |
|
# of vCPUs per node |
2 |
8 |
8 |
|
RAM in GB per node |
4 |
16 |
16 |
|
Storage in GB per node |
5 (available) |
120 |
120 |
|
Operating system |
Ubuntu 16.04 or 18.04 |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
Ubuntu 18.04 |
For a management and managed cluster, a base Ubuntu 18.04 image
with the default SSH |
Docker version |
18.09 |
- |
- |
For a management and managed cluster, Mirantis Container Runtime 19.03.12 In 2.2.0 or 19.03.13 Starting 2.3.0 |
Instance type |
- |
|
|
To prevent issues with low RAM, Mirantis recommends the following types of instances for a managed cluster with 50-200 nodes:
|
Bastion host instance type |
- |
|
|
The Bastion instance is created with a public Elastic IP address to allow SSH access to instances. |
# of volumes |
- |
7 (total 110 GB) |
5 (total 60 GB) |
|
# of Elastic load balancers to be used |
- |
10 |
6 |
|
# of Elastic IP addresses to be used |
- |
1 |
1 |
The bootstrap cluster is necessary only to deploy the management cluster. When the bootstrap is complete, this cluster can be deleted and its resources can be reused for the managed cluster workloads.