There are lots of other ways to build a kube cluster, such as kubeadm, or my favourite Kubernetes the hard way. However, we will create a kube cluster locally on our workstation using Minikube. I should point that all the things I'll demo in this course will work the same way irrespective of how the Kube Cluster was built. Earlier we talked about how to install minikube, lets now if it has really installed by running a minikube command: $ minikube version minikube version: v1.0.1 Similarly you check it's status: $ minikube status host: kubelet: apiserver: kubectl: To create a new kubecluster, we run (note this can take several minutes): $ minikube start If you open up the virtualbox gui, you should see a new vm called minikube running. If you check the status again, you should now see: $ minikube status host: Running kubelet: Running apiserver: Running kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at 192.168.99.100 Here it s