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Create a Cluster

Create a Cluster

Learn how to create a Kubernetes cluster with kind.

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To work with Helm we need to have a Kubernetes cluster sandbox first. In this course, we’ll be using kind as a local cluster. Let’s see how it works.

Manage a Kubernetes cluster

Create a cluster

Let’s begin with creating a cluster by executing the following command in the terminal below:

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kind create cluster

We can say that a cluster has been successfully created by looking at the output of the kind create cluster command.

First, let’s see if a Docker container is running:

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docker ps

The output will be as follows:

CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                  STATUS  
efcf4b73c74d   kindest/node:v1.21.1   Up 8 minutes

We can also check the logs to see if everything is okay:

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docker logs kind-control-plane

The output will be as follows:

INFO: ensuring we can execute
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