Installing 64 Bit Debian Buster
Using this tool, create an image of the 64 bit Buster OS
Once complete, and you have booted and connected to your new Pi image, verify the installation with the following
cat /etc/os-release |grep PRETTY_NAME
uname -a
You should see the ‘Buster’ and ‘aarch64’ in the respective outputs.
Installing Rancher K3s
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s – –write-kubeconfig-mode 644
sudo chmod 755 /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml
sudo cp /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml ~/.kube/config
Next, verify with:
systemctl status k3s.service
kubectl get pods
k3s kubectl cluster-info
Sample Python Pod Image for ARM64 Architecture
Copy the following into the file ‘python_pod.yaml’, and run the commands to create the pod, retrieve the logs showing the python version, then destroy the pod.
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: python36-arm-demo
labels:
purpose: container-args
spec:
containers:
- name: python36-demo-container-args
image: arm64v8/python:3.6
command: ["/usr/local/bin/python3"]
args: ["--version"]
restartPolicy: OnFailure
kubectl apply -f python_pod.yaml
kubectl get pods
kubectl logs python36-arm-demo
kubectl delete -f python_pod.yaml
