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Jay LaCroix
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Jeremy "Jay" LaCroix is a technologist and open-source enthusiast, specializing in Linux. He has a net field experience of 20 years across different firms as a Solutions Architect and holds a master's degree in Information Systems Technology Management from Capella University. In addition, Jay also has an active Linux-focused YouTube channel with over 250K followers and over 20M views, available at LearnLinuxTV, where he posts instructional tutorial videos and other Linux-related content. He has also written Linux Mint Essentials and Mastering Linux Network Administration, published by Packt Publishing.
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Utilizing MicroK8s

If you don’t have more than one machine or enough memory on your laptop or desktop to run multiple nodes inside virtualization software such as VirtualBox, MicroK8s is a simple way to set up a Kubernetes instance for testing the platform, as well as going through the examples in this chapter. MicroK8s is actually provided by Canonical, the makers of Ubuntu. That just goes to show you how important Kubernetes is to the Ubuntu distribution, its own creator is going the extra mile to contribute to the platform. MicroK8s is available for Linux, macOS, as well as Windows. So regardless of which operating system you’re running on your laptop or desktop, you should be able to install and use it. If nothing else, it gives you a great test installation of Kubernetes that will come in handy as you learn.

To set it up, follow along with one of the subsections below that matches the operating system installed on your computer.

Installing MicroK8s on Linux...

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Jeremy "Jay" LaCroix is a technologist and open-source enthusiast, specializing in Linux. He has a net field experience of 20 years across different firms as a Solutions Architect and holds a master's degree in Information Systems Technology Management from Capella University. In addition, Jay also has an active Linux-focused YouTube channel with over 250K followers and over 20M views, available at LearnLinuxTV, where he posts instructional tutorial videos and other Linux-related content. He has also written Linux Mint Essentials and Mastering Linux Network Administration, published by Packt Publishing.
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