Anthony Nocentino shows us how to install Kubernetes on-prem:
Kubernetes is a distributed system, you will be creating a cluster which will have a master node that is in charge of all operations in your cluster. In this walkthrough we’ll create three workers which will run our applications. This cluster topology is, by no means, production ready. If you’re looking for production cluster builds check out Kubernetes documentation. Here and here. The primary components that need high availability in a Kubernetes cluster are the API Server which controls the state of the cluster and the etcddatabase which stores the persistent state of the cluster. You can learn more about Kubernetes cluster components here.
In our demonstration here, the master is where the API Server, etcd, and the other control plan functions will live. The workers, will be joined to the cluster and run our application workloads.
This is an area I need to focus on, given my almost total lack of knowledge in the world of container orchestration.