Kubernetes is a powerful tool. It can help you manage complex applications and provide you with the ability to easily automate tasks involved in managing them. In this course, we will start exploring Kubernetes from a beginner's standpoint. We will discuss what Kubernetes is and what it does, and we will work with some of the basic functionality of Kubernetes hands-on. We will build a simple Kubernetes cluster. We will also deploy a sample microservice application to the cluster in order to explore how Kubernetes can help easily manage such applications.

A Practical Guide to Kubernetes

# Summary

With the exception of `emptyDir`, our choice of Volume type demonstrated in this chapter was not simply based on the ability to use them in a Minikube cluster. Each of these three Volume types will be an essential piece in the chapters that follow. 
* We'll use `hostPath` to access Docker server from inside containers. 

* The `gitRepo` Volume type will be very significant once we start designing a continuous deployment pipeline. 
* The `emptyDir` type will be required as long as we're using Minikube. Until we have a better solution for creating a Kubernetes cluster, `emptyDir` will continue to be used in our Minikube examples.

We have only scratched the surface with Volumes. There are at least two more that we should explore inside Minikube, and one when we change to a different solution for creating a cluster. 

The Volumes that we'll explore throughout the rest of the course are long enough subjects to deserve a separate chapter or, as we already mentioned, require that we get rid of Minikube. 
# Destroying Everything

For now, we'll just destroy the cluster and take a break.

This lesson summarises what we have learned so far and what we are going to learn next.

What's Next?

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