Up and running with Kubernetes and Microk8s

Installing the Microk8s snap couldn’t be much easier. However there are a couple of extra steps and gotchas if you want to install this in a VM on the DigitalOcean.

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snap install microk8s --classic

You can alias the

and

commands if you don’t want to keep running

.

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snap alias microk8s.kubectl kubectl

snap alias microk8s.helm helm

Microk8s makes it simple to enable common add-ons the ones we are enabling
are:

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# Dashboard for a bit of a nice interface to see what's happening

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microk8s.enable dashboard



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# Ingress for managing  domain names

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microk8s.enable ingress



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# Helm so we can install services from templates

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microk8s.enable helm

When we want to get to our dashboard we can’t login over http, so we need proxy connections to our local workstation. For this we will need to install

locally, luckily this is also available as a snap, so we can install that with a

.

To get the config for your local

you can run another handy command

this will print a config file to the terminal that you can copy the into

then you can run

locally.

Before you run the proxy command you can get your access token by running.

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kubectl -n kube-system describe secret $(kubectl -n kube-system get secret | grep default-token | cut -d " " -f1)

Now we have setup

locally you can run

to access your cluster from localhost. The URL to your dashboard will be

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http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy

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