Setting up the Kubernetes Cluster

We’ve based this course on using a managed Kubernetes cluster from DigitalOcean, so you’ll need one in order to follow along. If you don’t have an account at DigitalOcean, you can create one by visiting DigitalOcean directly or using this referral link.  At the time of writing this course, DigitalOcean gives you a $100 credit to try out different features on it.

We'll create a cluster using doctl, the official command-line interface for the DigitalOcean API.

Create the DigitalOcean Kubernetes cluster

After creating an account on DigitalOcean, we need to generate an access token to use the API. To generate the personal access token, follow the steps provided ...