Appendix A. Creating a Kubernetes cluster with kind

This appendix shows you how to install a kind (Kubernetes in Docker) Kubernetes cluster with multiple nodes, where the nodes themselves are Docker containers. You will download and install kind, which will use the kubeadm tool (packaged with kind) to bootstrap your cluster. The only prerequisite for this section is Docker and kind, which we will walk through installing together.

A.1 Installing the required packages

As mentioned, the only prerequisites to creating a kind Kubernetes cluster are Docker and kind. Docker Desktop is a software suite of products by Docker that makes it easier to build, run, and share containerized applications and microservices. If you don’t already have Docker Desktop ...

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