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Joel Lord
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Joel Lord

Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Picking a Kubernetes distribution (local, cloud, hosted)

Tekton runs inside a Kubernetes cluster, so to do any of the exercises in this book, you will need access to such a cluster. Many options can run locally on your machine or in the cloud, and range from free to thousands of US dollars (USD) per month.

If you already have a Kubernetes cluster available to you, feel free to skip this section and use your own.

If you do need access to your own Kubernetes cluster to experiment with the examples from this book, I recommend using a Kubernetes distribution that runs locally.

minikube

The easiest way to get started with Kubernetes is by running a micro distribution on your computer. There are many micro distributions available, such as MicroK8s by Canonical and K3s by Rancher. The one that will be used here is by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and is called minikube.

You will find the download and installation instructions for minikube on any operating...

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Joel Lord

Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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