Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run a simple Kubernetes cluster on your workstation. It is very useful, as it allows you to test your applications and configurations locally and quickly iterate on your applications without needing access to a larger cluster. For our purposes, it is the ideal tool to get some practical hands-on experience with Kubernetes. It is very simple to install and configure, as you will discover.
Your own Kubernetes
Installation
You will need a few tools to get Kubernetes running on your workstation:
- kubectl is the Kubernetes command-line interface. Throughout this book, you will be using it to interact with Kubernetes.
In the Kubernetes community, no one agrees how to pronounce kubectl.
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