Getting a Windows node to join a bare-bone Kubernetes cluster can be a daunting experience. In this posting I will demonstrate an easy way to achieve this using 1) a secondary network adaptor and 2) Ubuntu Multipass to create the required virtual machine on Windows.
This posting requires a working knowledge of Kubernetes, especially how to prepare and join a worker node to the cluster. A practice project to spin up a Kubernetes cluster with Ingress and MetalLB load-balancing using Ansible inspired the write-up and parts of that solution will be used. As such knowledge of Ansible might be beneficial but is not required.