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In order to perform all practical tasks together with me, you have to install some programs on your

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computer.

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And now let me talk about required software.

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And first, we have to create an actual Kubernetes cluster where we will create different deployments.

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Of course, you could create cluster using services from one of the cloud providers like Amazon Web

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Services or Google Cloud.

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But you have to pay for such service.

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If you want free solution, you could create cluster locally on your computer.

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And for that there was such tool as mini cube and such tool will essentially create just single node

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cluster and this node will be both worker node and master node.

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But for test deployments and as a playground, it works pretty nice and all of that is free and will

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be running on your local computer.

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In order to run mini cubes successfully, you have to utilize virtual machine or container manager and

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there are following virtual machine or container managers which are supported VirtualBox, VMware,

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Docker, Hyper-V or Parallels.

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There are also other options available, but you have to utilize one of such options in order to actually

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create the virtual node, which will run all ports in your Kubernetes cluster.

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I suggest you to go ahead with Hyper-V.

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If your Windows user and if you are a macOS user, you could go ahead with VirtualBox.

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It is free and open source, or you could utilize VMware or Parallels.

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By the way, there is also an option to run mini cube as a container inside of the Docker.

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Of course, if you have Docker already installed on your computer, you could utilize it in order to

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create Kubernetes cluster using mini cube and essentially it will create a separate Docker container.

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And inside of that container all ports will be created.

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But I personally don't recommend to you to go ahead with Docker option because there are some limitations.

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For example, I was not able to change a container runtime inside of the Docker container to cry or

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container db and therefore I recommend to you to go ahead with other options, which I mentioned here,

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by the way.

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Hyper-V is available on Windows computers out of the box and you could utilize it as virtual machine

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manager for running mini cube node.

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To summarize, using mini cube, you will create a single node, Kubernetes cluster.

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But as I mentioned before, you have to use specific tool in order to manage this cluster.

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And this tool is called cube steel, by the way.

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Cube steel is included in mini cube.

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But if you want to use such included version, you have to enter mini cube cube style commands.

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It is not convenient.

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Therefore, I recommend to you to install cube steel separately and using separate installation.

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You will be able, of course, to manage other Kubernetes clusters, which are located, for example,

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at Amazon Web Services.

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So jobs deal is also one of the programs which you have to install on your computer.

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Certainly, I'll explain to you how to install mini cube and cube steel.

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Other than that, we will also do some coding in this practical course.

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And for that you have to use one of the code editors and I recommend to you to install Visual Studio

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code.

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It is open source and free for use and if you have not yet installed it, please go ahead and install

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it.

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Also, it has many different extensions and one of them is Kubernetes extension.

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And using such extension you could very fast create, for instance, YAML configuration files for your

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deployments and services in Kubernetes.

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That's all what you need for this course.

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Mini Cube, Cube Steel and Visual Studio code.

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Now let's get started with practical part, and I hope you'll enjoy this course.

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And we will start with the installation of the mini cube and cube steel.