Appendix A. Tooling

To deploy and manage a Kubernetes environment on your machine, several tools need to be installed and configured.

A.1 Minikube

Minikube is a local Kubernetes cluster, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes in a local environment. It relies on container/virtualization technology, such as Docker, Podman, HyperKit, Hyper-V, KVM, or VirtualBox to boot up a Linux machine with Kubernetes installed. The VirtualBox virtualization tool is used for simplicity and because it is a generic installation that works in the most-used operating systems (Microsoft Windows, Linux, and Mac OS).

To install VirtualBox (if you haven’t done it yet), open the following URL in a browser: https://www.virtualbox.org/. When the ...

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