Launch Kubernetes using Docker

The following will also be set up for you:

• The Kubernetes DNS addon
• Kube UI

Starting Kubernetes on Linux

On Linux we'll run Kubernetes using a local Docker Engine. You will also need the kubectl tool. To launch the cluster:

./kube-up.sh

Starting Kubernetes on OS X

On OS X we'll launch Kubernetes via Docker Machine. You will need to have Docker Machine (v0.5.0 or newer), and the kubectl tool installed locally. First start your boot2docker VM:

docker-machine start <name>
eval "$(docker-machine env <name>)"

Then, launch the Kubernetes cluster in boot2docker via Docker Machine:

./kube-up.sh

The script will set up the kubectl contextso that you can use kubectl locally without having to ssh into boot2docker.

Checking if Kubernetes Is Running

kubectl cluster-info
Kubernetes master is running at http://localhost:8080

Accessing Kube UI

Not working at the moment: You can access Kube UI at http://localhost:8080/ui.

To destroy the cluster

./kube-down.sh

This will also remove any services, replication controllers and pods that are running in the cluster.