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Spin up and explore a minikube cluster

Spin up and explore a minikube cluster - Kubernetes Tutorial

From the course: Learning Kubernetes

Spin up and explore a minikube cluster

- [Instructor] Now that you have cube control and minikube installed, it's time to spin up an explore a cluster. First, make sure that your container engine, docker, or pod man is running. I'm using docker and I can check that it's running by invoking the Docker command. I'm making sure that I'm seeing a list of possible docker actions, and for me, it looks like my Docker container runtime is running. If not, I would need to start up my docker desktop application. Next, let's create a cluster with minikube. The command is minikube start. It usually takes a few minutes for your cluster to be created. While we're waiting a note on the difference between minikube and cube control. The minikube command helps you create a cluster from scratch, whereas cube control lets you interact with your cluster. In the future, when you spin up a cluster using a cloud provider like AWS, Azure, or gcp, you'll use their command…

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