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Exploring the Options

In this lesson, we'll look into different ways to set up a Kubernetes cluster and gure out how to set it up locally.

WE'LL COVER THE FOLLOWING

• Different Ways to Set up a Cluster


• 📝 A Note to Windows Users

Different Ways to Set up a Cluster #


One of the goals of this course is to limit the learning expense to a minimum.
True to that spirit, we’ll run a local Kubernetes cluster for as long as possible.
At one point, we’ll have to switch to a hosted, multi-node Kubernetes cluster.
We’ll do our best to postpone that for as long as possible without limiting your
learning experience. For now, we’ll create a local Kubernetes cluster on your
machine.

There are quite a few ways to set up a local Kubernetes cluster:

We could, for example, create a few nodes with Vagrant (a tool for
building and managing virtual machine environments in a single
workflow) and execute quite a few shell commands that would convert
them into a Kubernetes cluster.

We could go even further and create a VirtualBox image that would have
all the required software pre-installed and use it to create Vagrant VMs.

We could also use Ansible to run provisioning of those images as well as


to execute all the commands required to join VMs into a cluster.

There are many other things that we could do, but we won’t.

At this point, the idea is not to teach you all the intricacies of setting up a
Kubernetes cluster. Instead, we want to get you up to speed as fast as possible
and let you experience Kubernetes without sidelining that experience with
installation details.

If we were using Docker Swarm, we’d have Docker for Mac or Windows (or
run it natively on Linux) and execute a single docker swarm init command.
That’s all that’s needed to create a local Docker Swarm cluster. Can we
accomplish the same simplicity with Kubernetes?

The answer is Minikube.

Using Minikube to Set


up a Cluster
Minikube creates a single-node
cluster inside a VM on your laptop.
While that is not ideal, since we won’t
be able to demonstrate some of the
features Kubernetes provides in a
multi-node setup, it should be more
than enough to explain most of the
concepts behind Kubernetes.

Later on, we’ll move into a more production-like environment and explore the
features that cannot be demonstrated in Minikube.

📝 A Note to Windows Users #


Please run all the examples from GitBash (installed through Git). That way the
commands you’ll see throughout the course will be same as those that should
be executed on MacOS or any Linux distribution. If you’re using Hyper-V
instead of VirtualBox, you may need to run the GitBash window as an
Administrator.

Before we dive into Minikube installation, there are a few prerequisites we


should set up. The first in line is kubectl .

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