Kubespray and Ansible can be used to automate the installation of Kubernetes in a production-ready environment. Kubespray provides tools to configure highly available Kubernetes clusters across multiple Linux distributions. Ansible is an IT automation tool that can deploy software and configure systems. The document then provides a 6 step guide for installing Kubernetes on Ubuntu using kubeadm, including installing Docker, kubeadm, kubelet and kubectl, disabling swap, configuring system parameters, initializing the cluster with kubeadm, and joining nodes. It also briefly explains Kubernetes architecture including the master node, worker nodes, addons, CNI, CRI, CSI and key concepts like pods, deployments, networking,