K8s Development Environment

Install a mini K8s env for development.

K3s

On Mac with ARM Chip

  1. Install multipass for getting ready a Linux env.

brew install --cask multipass

  1. Setup a Ubuntu instance. multipass launch --name k3s --mem 4G --disk 40G

  2. Show info of the instance. multpass info k3s

  3. We can mount a local path into the VM, for sharing convenience. multipass mount ~/test/k8s k3s:~/k8s

  4. Install K3s on the VM. 
    multipass shell k3s
curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -

  5. By default, /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml is the K8s config file.

  6. Add another node to the K3s cluster.

Get info from the current cluster.

multipass exec k3s sudo cat /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/node-token
multipass info k3s | grep -i ip

Create a node and add to the current cluster.

$ multipass launch --name k3s-worker --mem 2G --disk 20G
$ multipass shell k3s-worker
ubuntu@k3s-worker:~$ curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | K3S_URL=https://192.168.64.4:6443 K3S_TOKEN="hs48af...947fh4::server:3tfkwjd...4jed73" sh -

Verify the cluster.

kubectl get nodes
  1. Remove Node 
    multipass delete k3s k3s-worker
multipass purge