Why are you doing all of this stuff manually? There are several providers that will set all of this stuff up automatically for you. I like the Kismatic toolkit (https://github.com/apprenda/kismatic), but there are a bunch of others. Sure, maybe once you go to production you'll want to install manually so that you have everything finely tuned the way you want, but learn it by using it rather than trying to have to figure things up front.

Or even better just use GKE for development / learning purposes. Just stop the cluster when you're not using it, and it'll be a lot cheaper than something you won't want to take down because you spent days installing it.

Personally I've used Stackpoint.io to provision some small clusters but I was very excited to see this project because deploying my own cluster from scratch is next on my todo list. Kelsey Hightower's "Kubernetes the Hard Way"[1] is the canonical go-to reference here but it's also very daunting so this looks like a great middle ground.

Let's face it, even today the k8s docs can be quite sparse sometimes or gloss over the details, so knowing how all of the pieces work from the ground up can be a big help. Plus, you prevent vendor lock-in when whatever automated tool you're using doesn't solve your use-case or decides to start charging a lot of money.

[1] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way