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Does Kubernetes not work on Intel?

I've been trying to set up a a local Kubernetes installation on an Ubuntu 16.04 VM by following the setup instructions posted here: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/kubeadm/

However in section (3/4) when installing a pod network, the following line appears: If you are on another architecture than amd64, you should use the flannel overlay network as described in the multi-platform section.

When you scroll down to the multi-platform section the only other architectures it offers are ARM-based: kubeadm deb packages and binaries are built for amd64, arm and arm64, following the multi-platform proposal.

Does this mean I can't get Kubernetes to work on an Intel-based machine?

Solution

  • amd64 is one of the ways people describe x86-64 processor instruction sets. Usually for linux distributions people tend to call their images amd64 because it came along first. Those images work fine on any modern Intel chip.

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