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We are continuing series on Kubernetes – simplifying the concepts..

In one of our previous kubernetes article – Kubernetes simplifying: Setting up local environment – creating Kubernetes cluster locally (helps in Interview Preparation) – Kubernetes for beginners we discussed setup Kubernetes cluster using Minikube on Linux / Ubuntu box

In this article we will discuss setting up Kubernetes cluster on Windows box on my local environment. I am using Windows 10 and setting up Kubernetes cluster on my local Windows 10 box using Minikube

Take away from this article

• What is Minikube
• Prerequisites required for Minikube
• How to enable Hyper-V on Windows 10
• What is Kubectl
• How to install Kubectl on Windows 10
• What is Minikube
• How to install Minikube on Windows 10

What is Minikube

• Minikube is light weight utility which creates a Virtual Machine (VM) on our local environment and creates Kubernetes cluster with single node
• We use Minikube for learning and development purpose
• Minikube CLI is available which provides basic commands to start, stop, delete and status of Minikube

Prerequisites

• Hyper-V enabled for Windows box
• Kubectl utility

If Hyper-V is not enabled for our Windows box then we can unable it from “Control Panel”

Enabling Hyper-V on Windows 10

• Navigate to “Control Panel >> Programs >> Get programs” as in below fig

• Next, click on link “Turn Windows features on or off” from left side menu as in below fig

• From the dialog “Windows Features” check the Hyper-V check box as shown in below fig

Installing Kubectl utility

• What is Kubectl command line utility – We have very detailed article, please have a look – Kubernetes – kubectl command line utility
• Download Kubectl or use following command

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v1.24.0/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe"

• Once installed successfully, we can verify it by using different options with Kubectl version command as

kubectl version

kubectl version --short

For more details following two commands

kubectl version --output=yaml

Installing Minikube utility

• Download Minikube utility from – https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-installer.exe
• Execute the executable to start Minikube utility and proceed as per the below steps shown in below figuers

• Once Minikube utility installed successfully, we could start our cluster with – minikube start command

minikube start

• As Kubernetes cluster starts successfully, we could check the the status of minikube using minikube status command as

minikube status

• As cluster starts we are ready to host containers and creating Kubernetes objects like – PODs , Deployments etc.
• We could get the Kubernetes cluster using – kubectl cluster-info cmdlet

kubectl cluster-info

I’ll stop here now. In next upcoming articles we will discuss more about Kubernetes objects

Thanks for reading!!! Please feel free to discuss in case any issue / thoughts / queries

HAVE A WONDERFUL TIME AHEAD!!! LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL 🙂