Jump right into Kubernetes development with career-focused lessons and hands-on practice.

DevOps for Developers

Kubernetes is a powerful container management tool that's taking the world by storm. This detailed course will help you master it.

In this course, you'll start with the fundamentals of Kubernetes and what the main components of a cluster look like. You'll then learn how to use those components to build, test, deploy, and upgrade applications, as well as how to achieve state persistence once your application is deployed. You'll also learn how to secure your deployments and manage resources, which are crucial DevOps skills.

By the time you're done, you'll have a firm grasp on what Kubernetes is, as well as the skills to deploy your own clusters and applications with confidence.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Different ways to set up a cluster

One of the goals of this course is to limit the learning expense to a minimum. This is why we ran the Kubernetes cluster directly on the platform. In this chapter, you will learn how to create a local Kubernetes cluster on your local machine.

There are quite a few ways to set up a local Kubernetes cluster:
* We can, for example, create a few nodes with [Vagrant](https://www.vagrantup.com/) (a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow) and execute quite a few shell commands that would convert them into a Kubernetes cluster.  

* We can go even further and create a VirtualBox image that would have all the required software pre-installed and use it to create Vagrant VMs. 
* We can also use Ansible to run provisioning of those images as well as to execute all the commands required to join VMs into a cluster. 

If we were using Docker Swarm, we'd have Docker for Mac or Windows (or run it natively on Linux) and execute a single `docker swarm init` command. That's all that's needed to create a local Docker Swarm cluster. Can we accomplish the same simplicity with Kubernetes?

The answer is Minikube.


Learn different ways to set up a Kubernetes cluster and figure out how to set it up locally.

Exploring the Options

Different ways to set up a cluster