Kubernetes

Preferred Kubernetes environments are Minikube, Kind and K3s. It's depends on your use case.

1. Minikube: Getting started with Fully Kubernetes environment
2. Kind: Kubernetes environment for clusters and more than a single node
3. K3s: Kubernetes environment for a low spec machine that uses fewer resources

Install

Minikube

Get-ComputerInfo OsName,OsVersion,OsBuildNumber
choco install docker-desktop -y
choco install minikube -y

# minikube start --driver=hyperv
# minikube start --driver=none
minikube start

minikube delete
minikube start --v=7
kubectl get nodes

Kind

choco install kubernetes-cli -y
choco install kind -y
kind create cluster
kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind

K3s

choco install multipass -y
multipass launch -n node1
multipass list

multipass set local.driver=hyperv
multipass set local.driver=virtualbox

Get-NetConnectionProfile
Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceIndex 13 -NetworkCategory Private

multipass list
cat C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts.ics

multipass delete --purge --all
multipass exec node1 -- bash -c "curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -"
multipass exec node1 -- sudo kubectl get nodes

Knowledge

choco -v
wsl -l -v
wsl --list --verbose
Restart-Service LxssManager
Get-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V

docker --help
docker version

kubectl --help
kubectl version

References

• Getting started Kubernetes on Windows
• Kubernetes on the Windows Desktop
• K3s Lightweight Kubernetes
• Install and Set Up kubectl
• Learn Kubernetes Basics
• MiniKube start
• Kubernetes