Create a local kubernetes cluster

What is Kubernetes? Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.

I'm not going to deep here on the k8s details as there are plenty resources available to achieve that purpose.

Were are going to use Kind to run Kubernetes locally:

Kind is a tool for running local Kubernetes clusters using Docker container “nodes”. kind was primarily designed for testing Kubernetes itself, but may be used for local development or CI.

To install it follow the instructions at https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start/#installation.

If you're using Windows and WSL2 check the specific instructions at https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/using-wsl2.

You'll also need to install kubectl, k8s command-line tool, that allows you to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. Installation instructions can be found at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools.

If you didn't create a k8s cluster during the Kind installation do it now:

kind create cluster

The output should be similar to:

Creating cluster "kind" ...
 ✓ Ensuring node image (kindest/node:v1.21.1) 🖼
 ✓ Preparing nodes 📦
 ✓ Writing configuration 📜
 ✓ Starting control-plane 🕹️
 ✓ Installing CNI 🔌
 ✓ Installing StorageClass 💾
Set kubectl context to "kind-kind"
You can now use your cluster with:

kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind

Not sure what to do next? 😅  Check out https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/quick-start

Additionally we would also need to have the service of type LoadBalancer working on the cluster.

Follow the instructions available at https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/docs/user/loadbalancer.

Next

The next section is Create a Helm chart for the API.