kubeadm Cheat Sheet/Join worker node

Join a worker node to the cluster.

Section: Cluster Bootstrap

Join worker node

bash
bash
kubeadm join k8s.example.com:6443 --token abcdef.0123456789abcdef --discovery-token-ca-cert-hash sha256:<hash>
Explanation

Join a worker node to the cluster.

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