Kelsey's tutorial is a bit outdated (Oct 2 2017 with k8s v1.8, v1.11 just got released). Here is a link to the official kubeadm guide for Creating a single master cluster with kubeadm:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/create-cluster-...
It basically is just running
kubeadm init
Note: This is no production-ready cluster (it has a single master), also you should have some basic understanding of k8s, which the OP provides. I also highly recommend to dig around kubernetes.io/docs - good material there.
I started with kubeadm some days before the release of k8s v1.11, which made some stuff I wrote obsolete, oh well... :) I really like the new kubeadm phase stuff, though.
There is also an official guide for Creating Highly Available Clusters with kubeadm (it's updated for v1.11) which I just went through:
https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/independent/high-availabili...
I opted for the "stacked masters" approach (run HA etcd right on the k8s master nodes), wrote some ansible tasks to automate to boring stuff like copying configs/certs etc., and am currently (re-)exploring add-ons and advanced functionality (helm, network policies, ingress controller, ceph via helm, ...).
Let's see how far I get this time!
I've been through this! Did you decide not to publish it, because it's been outdated?
Let someone review this, I'd love to read it, and getting feedback will be cathartic I promise! Post the link source!
kubeadm can do that:
https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubeadm-single-node-clust...
it basically comes down to bootstrapping it like normal and then removing the 'node-role.kubernetes.io/master' taint so that things can run on the master node.
The one area in kubeadm that is still being worked on is bootstrapping a HA cluster, but if you don't mind having a single master node, you can easily bootstrap a cluster and then add nodes to it later.