Installing Kubernetes and An Introduction to Minikube

Why Watch?

Kubernetes has rapidly become the leading container orchestration solution to be adopted by both developers and IT operations. Because of its continuing exponential growth, many organizations are expressing interest in implementing and leveraging Kubernetes immediately. 

This session will provide the fundamental steps to getting started with Kubernetes and will demonstrate how you can get your own fully-functional, local installation of Kubernetes in under a minute using minikube.

Familiarity with our previous sessions, Kubernetes 101 and Kubernetes 201 is recommended but not required.

To Be Discussed:

• Installation and introduction to Minikube
• Installation of Kubernetes on any infrastructure – AWS, Azure, Google, On-Premises
• Multi-node cluster best practices for production
• Pitfalls to avoid

Presented By

Chris Gaun

Chris Gaun is a director at Apprenda. He formerly worked as an analyst at Gartner covering public IaaS. Before that, he was a physicist that did computational modeling in quantum chemistry. He lives in Brooklyn with his dog Panda. You can follow him on Twitter at @Chris_Gaun.

Ike Arias

Isaac “Ike” Arias is the CTO at Apprenda. He has designed high-traffic, web-scale properties for the last 20 years. The virtual goods online trading platform he invented in 1999 was used by companies like Disney, WarnerBros and the Coca-Cola Company. He has consulted for large enterprises like Time, Inc. and Johnson&Johnson on Agile Development and Digital Operations at scale. He started his engineering career in networking and telecommunications, working for AT&T/Lucent and Bell Labs. You can follow him on Twitter at @iketweets.