Starting local Kubernetes using kind and Docker

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Youichi Fujimoto wrote this guide about running Kubernetes easily in Docker. He shows the steps to run a cluster in single Docker container using kind. You will need to have Go installed as kind is written in it.

_kind – is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”.

The article then walks you through:

  • Installing kind
  • Setting up kubectl
  • Deploying first application

kind is a good alternative to minikube because it only uses single container of Docker. Its upside is cross-platform friendliness even with Docker for Windows. By combining Kustomze which was integrated to Kubernetes 1.14, it is pretty straightforward to try it on your local machine. Excellent.

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