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Lab environment and architecture

Lab environment and architecture - Kubernetes Tutorial

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Lab environment and architecture

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- Building out a home lab is not only fun, but it can also be a bit stressful. You have to decide, do you want to load it locally or do you want to build it in the cloud? Do you want to build your own from scratch using something like kubeadm, or do you want to use prebuilt scripts and Vagrant or some other platform to be able to automate that process and use what others have built? You can also load it in Minikube and be able to run it locally, leveraging a pretty easy turnkey solution to be able to get access to a Kubernetes cluster. You can also load it in Docker Desktop. So leveraging Docker desktop, it's kind a built-in Kubernetes platform. Or you can use something like KinD, which is Kubernetes and Docker. Those are all options that give you a very easy way to be able to set up a lab. Now, if we look at some of the different cloud options, one of the things that you'll notice is that many of the cloud offerings, the providers themselves, offer free trials. These free trials will…

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