lab-01

Lab 01 - Minikube

For these labs we will use Minikube as our Kubernetes environment. This is going to run locally on a virtual machine on your laptop.

Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your laptop for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it day-to-day.

Task 0: Installing Minikube

If you already followed all steps in the prerequisites repo you can skip this step and move to Task 1.

If you did not, follow all steps in the prerequisites repo

Task 1: Enable Minikube

minikube start

Task 2: Test Minikube

Ensure that everything is working:

minikube status

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minikube
type: Control Plane
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubeconfig: Configured

Task 3: Testing kubectl

To verify that kubectl has been configured correctly run the kubectl get nodes command:

kubectl get nodes

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NAME       STATUS   ROLES    AGE    VERSION
minikube   Ready    master   197d   v1.19.4

NOTE: if you do not see the minikube node you are most likely connected to the wrong cluster