How to create a local development environment for Kubernetes?

Question

Kubernetes seems to be all about deploying containers to a cloud of clusters. What it doesn\'t seem to touch is development and staging environments (or such).

Durin

Answer 1

Here is the way I did a local set up for Kubernetes in Windows 10: -

• Use Docker Desktop

• Enable Kubernetes in the settings option of Docker Desktop

• In Docker Desktop by default resource allocated for Memory is 2GB so to use Kubernetes with Docker Desktop increase the memory.

• Install kubectl as a client to talk to Kubernetes cluster

• Run command kubectl config get-contexts to get the available cluster

• Run command kubectl config use-context docker-desktop to use the docker desktop

• Build a docker image of your application

• Write a YAML file (descriptive method to create your deployment in Kubernetes) pointing to the image created in above step cluster

• Expose a service of type node port for each of your deployment to make it available to the outside world