Kind

Kind.sigs.k8s.io

• Kind allows you to use Docker to run K8s nodes as containers
• Install here
• Get familiar with the basic commands
• Checkout the Kind documentation here

Why kind?

• kind supports multi-node (including HA) clusters
• kind supports building Kubernetes release builds from source
• support for make / bash or docker, in addition to pre-published builds
• kind supports Linux, macOS and Windows
• kind is a CNCF certified conformant Kubernetes installer

Kubernetes.io

• K8s is a production grade container orchestrater
• K8s is the conductor of the orchestra where the conductor is K8s and the orchestra is the containers within PODs
• PODS are cuddly safe worlds to hold containers (so cute)
• Get familiar with the basic commands

Requirements

• Docker installed & running
• Kubectl command line tool

Up & Running

Clusters

• Create a cluster kind create cluster
• Delete a cluster kind delete cluster

Kubectl

• Install kubectl the command line tool here
• Use the kubectl cheat sheet here
• Use Devdocs and the official documentation here
• Add the aliases & auto complete which are in the cheat sheet
• Interacting with your cluster
• Switch context and namespaces easily with these tools

kind-ortelius-config.yaml

kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.sigs.k8s.io/v1alpha3
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 32000
    hostPort: 8080