Recapping on

The K8 Architecture

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The Minikube Architecture

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You will need two tools in order to run kubernetes on your Windows or Linux machine, kubectl and minikube.

Download kubectl form here.

Download minikube from here.

Make sure you add both of these applications to the PATH environment variable.

Most of the kubectl and minkube commands are blocking, so you will need multiple shell windows to work with both tools.

Starting up minikube

Make sure docker-desktop is running, then execute the following command

You should see something like this

Minikube has a web control panel. To access you need to type the command

Each time you execute this command it will be presented on a different port number. Also, minikube dashboard blocks any other IO after it has run

Most of the commands that you can execute from the shell can be done from the dashboard

The main elements we will be dealing with are shown in this diagram

Consult the QA Community Guide for descriptions of each one