Kubernetes 1.2.0 beta-1 not starting on Raspbian 8.0

While trying to start kubernetes v1.2.0 on Raspbian 8.0 I ran into problems. Only k8s-master and k8s-master-proxy containers were started so the system was not getting up properly. Logs for k8s-master were telling following:

7215 kubelet.go:2365] skipping pod synchronization - [Failed to start ContainerManager system validation failed - Following Cgroup subsystem not mounted: [memory]]

Cgroup memory subsystem is not enabled by default. You can enable it by adding

cgroup_enable=memory

into /boot/cmdline. Reboot is needed after this.

You can check if the memory subsystem is enabled by listing /sys/fs/cgroup/ which should the have directory called "memory" among others

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