Kubernetes: Configuring a development local cluster

I recently started to learn about kubernetes, and I had to prepare my development environment, to practice and run my applications. So, this post I just a step-by-step of how I made.

This steps is just for Mac users, if you need help with some other plataform, please follow the instructors on the official documentation.

I am using the Minikube, to setup my environment, but you have other flavors to run kubernetes in a local-machine.

Requirements

To build a local cluster of kubernetes, you will need:

Installing requirements

I will use brew to install all requirements, this is the fastest way you can install all you need.

brew cask install docker virtualbox

then

brew install kubernetes-cli

and then

brew cask install minikube

You need root permission to install some packages, also need allow them on Security & Privacy.

Starting the cluster

After whole instalation, let’s check with all we need are installed.

$ docker version
Client: Docker Engine - Community
 Version:           18.09.2
 API version:       1.39
 Go version:        go1.10.8
 Git commit:        6247962
 Built:             Sun Feb 10 04:12:39 2019
 OS/Arch:           darwin/amd64
 Experimental:      false

Server: Docker Engine - Community
 Engine:
  Version:          18.09.2
  API version:      1.39 (minimum version 1.12)
  Go version:       go1.10.6
  Git commit:       6247962
  Built:            Sun Feb 10 04:13:06 2019
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false

$ minikube version    
minikube version: v0.34.1

So let start our cluster, with the following command:

$ minikube start

This will take time, but after that you cluster should be running and you can do you marvelous experiments. You can see some basics example here, but I am going to write more useful examples in the future.

Ps.: This is my first post written in English, if you find any typo, feel free to suggest the hotfix! ;D

Voltar