Installing the Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine

Now that your DC/OS Enterprise cluster is ready to install Kubernetes on DC/OS, you will install the Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE) on top of DC/OS.

MKE is the engine DC/OS uses to generate DC/OS Kubernetes clusters. Accordingly, it is necessary to install the Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine (MKE) - installed via the kubernetes package - before attempting to install DC/OS Kubernetes clusters on DC/OS.

To install MKE on an DC/OS Enterprise cluster, we must first provision a service account for MKE, grant the appropriate permissions to that MKE service account, and then finally install the MKE package - kubernetes.

Provision a Service Account for MKE

In order to run Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine - the kubernetes package - on DC/OS Enterprise, a service account with permissions to run tasks under the kubernetes-role is required. However, to provision such a service account, we will need to carry out a few security steps:

Start by creating a unique keypair to use for the service account.

The basic format looks like this:
```
dcos security org service-accounts keypair <private-key>.pem <public-key>.pem
```
where you replace <private-key> with the name of the private key to associate with the service account, and, of course, likewise for <public-key>. For example, if you wanted to use a naming convention of mke-priv and mke-pub, enter this on the command line:
```
dcos security org service-accounts keypair mke-priv.pem mke-pub.pem
```
This will create a keypair in the working directory as mke-priv.pem and mke-pub.pem.
Next, create the service account using the public key you just generated.
```
dcos security org service-accounts create -p <public-key>.pem -d '<Description>' kubernetes
```
Which will look like this if using the mke-pub.pem from above:
```
dcos security org service-accounts create -p mke-pub.pem -d 'Kubernetes service account' kubernetes
```
You should see no output from CLI in response. This is the expected behavior.
Last, associate a secret with the service account using the private key.
```
dcos security secrets create-sa-secret <private-key>.pem kubernetes kubernetes/sa
```
Using the mke-* keypair example here:
```
dcos security secrets create-sa-secret mke-priv.pem kubernetes kubernetes/sa
```
Again, it is expected behavior for no output from the CLI unless an error has occurred.

Grant Permissions to the MKE service account

Now that a service account is provisioned for MKE, we need to grant certain permissions to the service account under a Mesos role, in this case kubernetes-role. To grant the permissions to MKE:

First, grant mesos master reservation role permissions to the kubernetes service account under kubernetes-role to create reservations, and to the kubernetes principal to delete reservations:

In the CLI, enter:
```
dcos security org users grant kubernetes dcos:mesos:master:reservation:role:kubernetes-role create
dcos security org users grant kubernetes dcos:mesos:master:reservation:principal:kubernetes delete
```
Again, like in the procedure above, these dcos-security commands will not respond with output in the CLI. However, some conditions will cause corresponding errors to register, such as already having granted the permissions trying to be granted.

Next, grant mesos master framework permission under the same role.

dcos security org users grant kubernetes dcos:mesos:master:framework:role:kubernetes-role create

Finally, grant mesos master task permission:
```
dcos security org users grant kubernetes dcos:mesos:master:task:user:nobody create
```
As long as all the permissions have been granted successfully, you are ready to move on.

Install the MKE Package

Now that permissions have been granted to the service account, we need to make sure that the package installer is aware of the account.

First, open the options JSON file associated with the account.

If you do not already have an options JSON file, you can easily create one. In your CLI, enter:
```
touch mke-options.json
```
This will create the file in your current working directory, in this example we name the file mke-options.json.
Open the file in a text editor and add the service account information.

Place the following snippet in the newly configured mke-options.json file:
```
{
    "service": {
        "service_account": "kubernetes",
        "service_account_secret": "kubernetes/sa"
    }
}
```
Save and close the file to be used to install the package.

Install the package using the associated mke-options.json configured for the package in the last step.

In the CLI, enter:

dcos package install --yes kubernetes --options=mke-options.json

Which should result in the following output when things work as expected:

$ dcos package install --yes kubernetes --options=mke-options.json
Installing Marathon app for package [kubernetes] version [2.7.0-1.18.6]
Installing CLI subcommand for package [kubernetes] version [2.7.0-1.18.6]
New command available: dcos kubernetes
The Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine service is being installed.

For more information on the CLI management commands for DC/OS Kubernetes see the CLI reference section of this documentation.

Next Step: Creating Kubernetes Clusters on DC/OS Enterprise

Now that MKE is installed on your DC/OS cluster, you can move on to creating Kubernetes clusters on top of DC/OS Enterprise.

Installing the Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine

Install the Mesosphere Kubernetes Engine on your DC/OS Cluster

Provision a Service Account for MKE

Grant Permissions to the MKE service account

Install the MKE Package

Next Step: Creating Kubernetes Clusters on DC/OS Enterprise