# Seeking Advice Creating Production Cluster

**URL:** <https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/seeking-advice-creating-production-cluster/16143>\
**Category:** General Discussions\
**Created:** [June 2, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/seeking-advice-creating-production-cluster/16143 "2021-06-02T16:59:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![davidjohnbell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.kubernetes.io/davidjohnbell/32/7780_2.png) [@davidjohnbell](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/u/davidjohnbell)\
**Post date:** [June 2, 2021, 4:59pm UTC](https://discuss.kubernetes.io/t/seeking-advice-creating-production-cluster/16143/1 "2021-06-02T16:59:13Z")

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### Cluster information:

Kubernetes version: latest  
Cloud being used: bare-metal  
Installation method: any  
Host OS: Ubuntu  
CNI and version: N/A  
CRI and version: N/A

Hello everyone, thankyou in advance for your help, I really appreciate it. As the title says, I’m looking for some advice on how to create a production ready cluster. I have a static IP address and three rack mount servers (each having 32Gb of ram and 2x500Gb of hard disk). I’ve watched several videos ([this one was pretty good](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4H6hdvB9iQ&ab_channel=TechLairTechLair)), played with Minikube, [and read several articles](https://kubernetes.io/blog/2019/03/15/kubernetes-setup-using-ansible-and-vagrant/) - I think I’m ready to give the real deal a shot. My dream is to connect my three machines each of which will have a master and several workers VMs running on it. My plan was to install Ansible, VirtualBox, and Vagrant, on each machine such that I can tune the number of workers easily. However, my networking knowledge is really lackluster and my biggest fear is setting it up improperly - I want to follow as many best practices as I can. Does anyone have any advice or would be open to emailing back and forth some occasional guidance?