Kubernetes for Development

The Motivation

There is no limitation while you're provisioning Kubernetes cluster(s) for your development purposes. We're lucky enough to have such a diversified community where offers all kinds of cool tools and well-written tutorials.

So this is really subject to your preference, requirements and resource constraints.

For me, I have set some objectives while thinking the "best way" to have a local Kubernetes cluster for learning, development right in my laptop.

In short, the Kubernetes cluster provisioned:

• MUST be multiple "nodes", e.g. 1 Masters + 3 Workers;
• MUST be easily accessible to each component for necessary tweaking;
• MUST consume bare minimum resources -- I do care about my laptop's battery life;
• MUST be embedded with best practices, as more as possible.

The Ways

The potential ways might keep growing/evolving along the days.

But as of now, below are what I've tried and considered "great".

If you like the OKD/OpenShift approach, instead of the upstream K8s, you may try these:

• OKD in Docker, refer to README-OKD-IN-DOCKER.md
• Or MiniShift, which you can find tutorial everywhere.

Note: all the experiments were on Mac, but working in a Linux env should be very similar.

Enjoy!