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A Practical Guide to Helm

Create a Cluster

Explore the process of creating a local Kubernetes cluster using Kind to set up a sandbox environment. Understand how to verify cluster creation, check running Docker containers, and monitor logs to ensure the cluster is ready for Helm usage and application deployment.

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To work with Helm we need to have a Kubernetes cluster sandbox first. In this course, we’ll be using kind as a local cluster. Let’s see how it works.

Manage a Kubernetes cluster

Create a cluster

Let’s begin with creating a cluster by executing the following command in the terminal below:

Shell
kind create cluster

We can say that a cluster has been successfully created by looking at the output of the kind create cluster command.

First, let’s see if a Docker container is running:

Shell
docker ps

The output will be as follows:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                  STATUS  
efcf4b73c74d   kindest/node:v1.21.1   Up 8 minutes

We can also check the logs to see if everything is okay:

Shell
docker logs kind-control-plane

The output will be as follows:

INFO: ensuring we can execute
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