Technical requirements

To get started, we need to make sure your local machine meets the following technical requirements.

In case you’re on Linux, we’re demonstrating examples with a minikube cluster – check out Chapter 2, Installing and Configuring Kubernetes Clusters. Make sure that your test environment meets the following requirements:

• A compatible Linux host. We recommend a Debian-based Linux distribution such as Ubuntu 18.04 or later.
• Make sure that your host machine has at least 2 GB of RAM, 2 CPU cores, and about 20 GB of free disk space.

In case you’re on Windows 10 or Windows 11, make note of the following:

• We recommend updating Docker Desktop to the latest version and creating a local docker-desktop Kubernetes cluster. Refer to this article to understand how to set up a local Kubernetes cluster with Docker Desktop:
• We also recommend using Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL 2) to test the environment &...