Creating a Cluster

We'll create a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube.

minikube start --vm-driver=virtualbox
    
kubectl get nodes  

The output of the latter command is as follows:

NAME     STATUS ROLES  AGE VERSION
minikube Ready  <none> 47s v1.8.0  

To simplify the process and save you from writing all the configuration files, we'll clone the GitHub repository vfarcic/k8s-specs (https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs). It contains everything we'll need for this chapter, as well as for most of the others in this book.

git clone https://github.com/vfarcic/k8s-specs.git
    
cd k8s-specs  

We cloned the repository and entered into the directory that was created.

Now we can run our first Pod.