Easily and Quickly Setup Kubernetes using LXD.

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Running Kubernetes in 5 easy steps.

$ sudo snap install conjure-up --classic --edge
$ sudo snap install lxd
$ /snap/bin/lxd init
$ sudo usermod -a -G lxd $USER
$ conjure-up kubernetes

Setup the dashboard yet: https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard

Or we can create user for admin here: https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/wiki/Creating-sample-user

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kubectl proxy

Now perform the forwarding so we can access the dashboard locally using the command on local machine:
ssh ubuntu@<remoteip> -L 8001:127.0.0.1:8001 -N

And hitting our local browser on port 8001, we see the following Dashboard.

 

We can also try to ssh back to the host machine and execute a sample application.

kubectl run hello-world --replicas=2 --labels="run=load-balancer-example" --image=gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0 --port=8080


It's fast and easy to get Kubernetes for any demo purposes.