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Create a Kubernetes cluster locally

This guide shows how to create a Kubernetes cluster locally using Kubernetes kind.

Requirements​

You need to have kind installed. Please refer to the official documentation.

Run kind version to make sure kind is correctly installed.

You also need to have the kubectl CLI installed.

Create the Kubernetes cluster locally​

You can now create the Kubernetes cluster locally using the following command:

cat <<EOF | kind create cluster --config=-
kind: Cluster
apiVersion: kind.x-k8s.io/v1alpha4
nodes:
- role: control-plane
  kubeadmConfigPatches:
  - |
    kind: InitConfiguration
    nodeRegistration:
      kubeletExtraArgs:
        node-labels: "ingress-ready=true"
  extraPortMappings:
  - containerPort: 80
    hostPort: 80
    protocol: TCP
  - containerPort: 443
    hostPort: 443
    protocol: TCP
EOF

This creates a cluster which allows the deployement of an ingress controller. You will need this in the next guides.

Check the installation with the following command:

kubectl get nodes

The output is similar to:

NAME                 STATUS   ROLES           AGE   VERSION
kind-control-plane   Ready    control-plane   10m   v1.24.0

Next​

Your have a Kubernetes cluster running locally 🥳

You can now initialize it to work with Lizz.