Kubernetes is a powerful tool. It can help you manage complex applications and provide you with the ability to easily automate tasks involved in managing them. In this course, we will start exploring Kubernetes from a beginner's standpoint. We will discuss what Kubernetes is and what it does, and we will work with some of the basic functionality of Kubernetes hands-on. We will build a simple Kubernetes cluster. We will also deploy a sample microservice application to the cluster in order to explore how Kubernetes can help easily manage such applications.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

We are finished with a short introduction to Minikube. Actually, this might be called a long introduction as well. We used it to create a single-node Kubernetes cluster, launch the UI, do common VM operations like stop, restart, and delete, and so on. There's not much more to it. If you are familiar with Vagrant or Docker Machine, the principle is the same, and the commands are very similar.

# Destroying the Cluster
Before we leave, we'll destroy the cluster. The next chapter will start fresh. That way, you can execute commands from any chapter at any time.

This lesson summarises what we have learned so far and what's coming up next.

What's Next?

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