Creating a Cluster

We need a cluster where we’ll deploy the demo application that we’ll target in our experiments. Whether you have it or not depends on whether you destroyed your cluster at the end of the previous section. If you didn’t destroy it, just skip to the next section right away. If you did destroy the cluster, use one of the Gists that follow, or just roll out your own cluster. It’s up to you. What matters is that you need to have a Kubernetes cluster.

Gists for different Kubernetes flavors#

Gists with the commands to create and destroy a Kubernetes cluster are as follows.

• Docker Desktop
• Minikube
• GKE
• EKS
• AKS

In the next lesson, we will be installing the Istio service mesh.