Kubernetes

There is a bunch of ways to provision Kubernetes, but you need to take few elements into account:

• is it a “throwable” cluster, for development or tests purposes
• is it a local cluster (not exposed to the public)
• is it a production grade cluster (exposed to the public)

For the throwable case, there is a bunch of possibilities, from running VMs to running kubernetes in containers.

• kubernix for NixOS specific.
• minikube
• kind
• microk8s

For the local cluster part, you can rely on the hard way or on tools from the community, depending on your system.

• I am trying to use NixOS for this : Kubernetes on NixOS.
• In parallel, I’m gonna setup k8s using microk8s on VMs too, so that I can test with a Ubuntu host.

For the production grade cluster, well, I am not there yet, but best advice, use GKE or OpenShift.

kubectl config view --minify --flatten \
        --context=put-the-context-here > ~/.kube/config.context