zaidsasa/vagrant-kubernetes-cluster

A Kubernetes practice cluster for CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications using Vagrant and Ansible.

Vagrant Kubernetes Cluster

A Kubernetes practice cluster for CKA, CKAD, and CKS certifications using Vagrant and Ansible.

Prerequisites

1. vagrant
2. virtualbox

What is included?

1. Container Runtime Interface (CRI): cri-o
2. Container Network Interface (CNI): calico 3.28.0 (Default)
3. Kubernetes: 1.29 (Default)
4. Kubernetes Dashboard: 7.5.0

Create a Kubernetes practice cluster

To create the cluster, execute the following commands.

git clone https://github.com/zaidsasa/kubernetes-practice-environment.git
cd kubernetes-practice-environment
vagrant up

Set Kubeconfig variable

export KUBECONFIG=$(pwd)/.vagrant/k8s/config

Kubernetes Dashboard

Install Kubernetes Dashboard

you can enable it in settings.yaml and running the following:

vagrant provision

Access Kubernetes Dashboard

To get the login token, run the following command:

kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard create token admin-user

Make the dashboard accessible:

kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard port-forward svc/kubernetes-dashboard-kong-proxy 8443:443

Open the site in your browser:

https://localhost:8443/

To shutdown the cluster

vagrant halt

To destroy the cluster

vagrant destroy -f

Contributing

Please feel free to submit issues, fork the repository and send pull requests!

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.