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Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2020

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800562448

Length 246 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Linux

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Shell Scripting

Author (1):

Stuart Leeks

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Introduction, Installation, and Configuration

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to the Windows Subsystem for Linux FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Installing and Configuring the Windows Subsystem for Linux

4. Chapter 3: Getting Started with Windows Terminal

5. Section 2:Windows and Linux – A Winning Combination

6. Chapter 4: Windows to Linux Interoperability

7. Chapter 5: Linux to Windows Interoperability

8. Chapter 6: Getting More from Windows Terminal

9. Chapter 7: Working with Containers in WSL

10. Chapter 8: Working with WSL Distros

11. Section 3: Developing with the Windows Subsystem for Linux

12. Chapter 9: Visual Studio Code and WSL

13. Chapter 10: Visual Studio Code and Containers

14. Chapter 11: Productivity Tips with Command-Line Tools

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Setting up Kubernetes in WSL

There is no shortage of options for installing Kubernetes, including the following:

Kind (https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/)
Minikube (https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/)
MicroK8s (https://microk8s.io/)
k3s (https://k3s.io/)

The first of these, Kind, stands for Kubernetes in Docker and was designed for testing Kubernetes. As long as your build tool can run Docker containers, it can be a good option as a way to run Kubernetes as part of your integration tests in your automated builds. By default, Kind will create a single-node Kubernetes cluster but you can configure it to run multi-node clusters, where each node is run as a separate container (we will see how to use Kind in Chapter 10, Visual Studio Code and Containers in the Working with Kubernetes in dev container section).

For this chapter, however, we will use the built-in Kubernetes capabilities in Docker Desktop, which provides a convenient way to enable...