Getting started with Kubernetes for local development. I develop on a Mac however much of this is easily translated to windows.

The following is primarily a getting started guide wrapped around my personal development notes. This set of notes are specifically for my co-workers in helping them get up to speed quickly. If you see an error feel free to make a pull request or just add an issue.

Contents

• Deeper Reading and Resources
  • Free Courses
  • Paid Courses
• Prerequisites
• Test Installation
• Get some status
  • Architecture
• Create a Deployment
• Useful Commands

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Deeper Reading and Resources

Free Courses

• Official Kubernetes Tutorials
• Udacity: Scalable Microservices with Kubernetes
• Kubernetes The Hard Way For anyone planning to support a production Kubernetes cluster and wants to understand how everything fits together.

Paid Courses

• Lynda: Learning Kubernetes
• Lynda: Kubernetes: Native Tools
• Udemy: Learn DevOps: The Complete Kubernetes Course
• Udemy: Learn DevOps: Advanced Kubernetes Usage

Prerequisites

• Install Docker
• Install Virtualbox
• Install Kubectl
• Install Minikube

Test Installation

$ minikube version
minikube version: v0.25.0

$ minikube start
Starting local Kubernetes v1.9.0 cluster...
Starting VM...
Getting VM IP address...
Moving files into cluster...
Setting up certs...
Connecting to cluster...
Setting up kubeconfig...
Starting cluster components...
Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.
Loading cached images from config file.

$ minikube addons list
- addon-manager: enabled
- coredns: disabled
- dashboard: enabled
- default-storageclass: enabled
- efk: disabled
- freshpod: disabled
- heapster: disabled
- ingress: disabled
- kube-dns: enabled
- registry: disabled
- registry-creds: disabled
- storage-provisioner: enabled


# enable heapster for CPU and mem
$ minikube addons enable heapster
heapster was successfully enabled

# open the dashboard (in a browser)
$ minikube dashboard

Get some status

# are we running a cluster?
$ kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at https://192.168.99.100:8443

# we should have a minikube node
$ kubectl get nodes
NAME       STATUS    ROLES     AGE       VERSION
minikube   Ready     <none>    2d        v1.9.0

Architecture

Read Kubernetes Basics for a better understanding.

• A Cluster has Nodes
• A Node has Pods
• A Pod has (Docker in our case) containers and volumes

Create a Deployment

Run a “hello world” using example echoserver

# get a list of commands
$ kubectl run --help

# run a hello world echo server
$ kubectl run hello-minikube --image=gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.4 --port=8080

deployment "hello-minikube" created

# expose the node's port
$ kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube --type=NodePort

service "hello-minikube" exposed

# get the URL
$ minikube service hello-minikube --url

http://192.168.99.100:31923

Useful Commands

Port Forwarding / Local Development

Check out kubefwd for a simple command line utility that bulk forwards services of one or more namespaces to your local workstation.

This blog post, titled: "Kubernetes Overview: Container Orchestration & Microservices" by Craig Johnston, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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