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Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition

You're reading from   Mastering Docker, Fourth Edition Enhance your containerization and DevOps skills to deliver production-ready applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839216572
Length 568 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Up and Running with Docker
2. Chapter 1: Docker Overview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Building Container Images 4. Chapter 3: Storing and Distributing Images 5. Chapter 4: Managing Containers 6. Chapter 5: Docker Compose 7. Chapter 6: Docker Machine, Vagrant, and Multipass 8. Section 2: Clusters and Clouds
9. Chapter 7: Moving from Linux to Windows Containers 10. Chapter 8: Clustering with Docker Swarm 11. Chapter 9: Portainer – A GUI for Docker 12. Chapter 10: Running Docker in Public Clouds 13. Chapter 11: Docker and Kubernetes 14. Chapter 12: Discovering other Kubernetes options 15. Chapter 13: Running Kubernetes in Public Clouds 16. Section 3: Best Practices
17. Chapter 14: Docker Security 18. Chapter 15: Docker Workflows 19. Chapter 16: Next Steps with Docker 20. Assessments 21. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using Kubernetes and Docker Desktop

Now that we have our Kubernetes cluster up and running on our Docker desktop installation, we can start to interact with it. To start with, we are going to look at the command line that was installed alongside the Docker desktop component, kubectl.

As mentioned, kubectl was installed alongside Docker. The following command will show some information about the client and also the cluster it is connected to:

$ kubectl version

Like when running docker version, this should give you information on both the client and server:

Figure 11.7 – Checking the versions of the client and server

Next, we can run the following to see if kubectl can see our node:

$ kubectl get nodes

As we only have a single node, we should only see one listed:


Figure 11.8 – Listing our nodes

Now that we have our client interacting with our node, we can view the namespaces that are configured by...

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