Install prev kubeadm versions

gistfile1.txt

kubeadm init --use-kubernetes-version=v1.5.6

update-centos-7.sh

cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=http://yum.kubernetes.io/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg
        https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF

setenforce 0

# 1.5.4 is the latest previous version in the repo.  Because of messed up 
# versioning in the 1.5 release, kubeadm is no longer indexed in the repos
# so we have to refer to the RPM directly.
sudo yum -y install \
  yum-versionlock \
  docker \
  kubectl-1.5.4-0 \
  kubelet-1.5.4-0 \
  kubernetes-cni-0.3.0.1-0.07a8a2 \
  http://yum.kubernetes.io/pool/082436e6e6cad1852864438b8f98ee6fa3b86b597554720b631876db39b8ef04-kubeadm-1.6.0-0.alpha.0.2074.a092d8e0f95f52.x86_64.rpm 

# Lock the version of these packages so that we don't upgrade them accidentally.
sudo yum versionlock add kubectl kubelet kubernetes-cni kubeadm

# Enable and start up docker and the kubelet
systemctl enable docker && systemctl start docker
systemctl enable kubelet && systemctl start kubelet

update-ubuntu-16-04.sh

apt-get update && apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add -
cat <<EOF >/etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
deb http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main
EOF
apt-get update

# 1.5.6 does exist in the repo but it has a hard depenedency on a newer kubernetes-cni.  Use 1.5.3 instead.
sudo apt-get -y install kubectl=1.5.3-00 kubelet=1.5.3-00 kubernetes-cni=0.3.0.1-07a8a2-00

# Versioning strangeness for how we packaged kubeadm pre-1.6 means that the version number
# says 1.6.0-alpha even though it is the 1.5 version of kubeadm.  Because of how this sorts,
# we cannot keep this deb in the repo.  Download it manually and install it.
curl -Lo /tmp/old-kubeadm.deb https://apt.k8s.io/pool/kubeadm_1.6.0-alpha.0.2074-a092d8e0f95f52-00_amd64_0206dba536f698b5777c7d210444a8ace18f48e045ab78687327631c6c694f42.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/old-kubeadm.deb
sudo apt-get install -f

# Hold these packages back so that we don't accidentally upgrade them.
sudo apt-mark hold kubeadm kubectl kubelet kubernetes-cni

LGTM 👍, feel free to add this to the reference guide on the site

instead of use direct url of rpm, you can install dnf and the install kubeadm-1.x.x ...this will install all dependencies needed

Thank you so much,
only with your sh script I've managed to install kubernetes on Ubuntu 16.04, the current version of k8s is 1.9 and
I was not able to got it working (corrention refused error)

Thank You, It is still relevent and helped me save time . This information was very hard to find.