Category: Kubernetes Install

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Posted on by Jay Jo

k3d is a lightweight wrapper to run k3s (Rancher Lab’s minimal Kubernetes distribution) in docker.

Installation

brew install k3d

Create a cluster named k3d with just a single server node:

k3d cluster create k3d

# Creating multi-server clusters
k3d cluster create k3d --servers 2

# Adding server nodes to a running cluster¶
# In theory (and also in practice in most cases), this is as easy as executing the following command:

k3d node create newserver --cluster multiserver --role server
kubectl get nodes                                                                                     
NAME               STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
k3d-k3d-server-1   Ready    master   3m8s    v1.18.16+k3s1
k3d-k3d-server-0   Ready    master   3m25s   v1.18.16+k3s1

docker ps 
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                      COMMAND                  CREATED         STATUS         PORTS                             NAMES
b1aa78d2f128   rancher/k3d-proxy:v4.3.0   "/bin/sh -c nginx-pr…"   4 minutes ago   Up 3 minutes   80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:55194->6443/tcp   k3d-k3d-serverlb
0d83b5d6b2a0   rancher/k3s:latest         "/bin/k3s server --t…"   4 minutes ago   Up 3 minutes                                     k3d-k3d-server-1
19e59f345d6b   rancher/k3s:latest         "/bin/k3s server --c…"   4 minutes ago   Up 3 minutes                                     k3d-k3d-server-0

Get the new cluster’s connection details merged into your default kubeconfig (usually specified using the KUBECONFIG environment variable or the default path $HOME/.kube/config) and directly switch to the new context:

k3d kubeconfig merge k3d --kubeconfig-switch-context

https://k3d.io/

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