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The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit

You're reading from   The DevOps 2.3 Toolkit Kubernetes: Deploying and managing highly-available and fault-tolerant applications at scale

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135503
Length 418 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Viktor Farcic Viktor Farcic
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. How Did We Get Here? FREE CHAPTER 2. Running Kubernetes Cluster Locally 3. Creating Pods 4. Scaling Pods With ReplicaSets 5. Using Services to Enable Communication between Pods 6. Deploying Releases with Zero-Downtime 7. Using Ingress to Forward Traffic 8. Using Volumes to Access Host's File System 9. Using ConfigMaps to Inject Configuration Files 10. Using Secrets to Hide Confidential Information 11. Dividing a Cluster into Namespaces 12. Securing Kubernetes Clusters 13. Managing Resources 14. Creating a Production-Ready Kubernetes Cluster 15. Persisting State 16. The End 17. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a cluster

This time, we'll have an additional action we'll execute in preparation to create a Minikube cluster.

All the commands from this chapter are available in the 08-volume.sh (https://gist.github.com/vfarcic/5acafb64c0124a1965f6d371dd0dedd1) Gist.
cd k8s-specs 
 
git pull 
 
cp volume/prometheus-conf.yml \  
    ~/.minikube/files 

We'll need the file inside the soon-to-be-created Minikube VM. When it starts, it will copy all the files from ~/.minikube/files on your host, into the /files directory in the VM.

Depending on your operating system, the ~/.minikube/files directory might be somewhere else. If that's the case, please adapt the preceding command.

Now that the files are copied to the shared directory, we can repeat the same process we did quite a few times before. Please note that we've added the step from the last chapter that enables...

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