The hard way

Then best way to be crystal clear about all of the internal components of k8s is to go through this excellent repo on github, its a derivative of the infamous k8s the hard way by kelsey hightower, but this one is much harder. Tests you but is very comprehensive and you will learn a lot

“https://github.com/ghik/kubernetes-the-harder-way/tree/linux”

You start by creating 7 vms using QEMU [note to enable nested virtualization if working on a cloud vm]

Then created a 3 etcd cluster

managed to create a kube api cluster fronted by a ipvsadm/ldirectory loadbalancing setup working with weighted round robin

installed kubeapi server and cni,containerd and kubelet on all servers