Summary and Setup

This lesson aims to introduce the use of Kubernetes, often referred to as K8s or K-ate-s, with the goal of using Kubernetes to enable reproducible computational environments at scale.

The hands-on work in this lesson is aimed to using Kubernetes on your own laptop. These concepts can be translated to other Kubernetes environments, including those provided by a single compute nodes, campus Kubernetes cluster, large scale national clusters, or cloud providers.

Data Sets

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No datasets are required to be downloaded for this lesson.

Software Setup

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Details

This lesson is designed around having access to a campus or regional Kubernetes resource. If one is not available, you can create a local one on your computer using a tool called Minikube. To use this tool, please visit the setup guide for MiniKube.

If you have access to a campus or regional platform, please reach out to the support staff of the platform for getting access. As a part of a workshop, this should be handled for you.

To access and interact with the resources, you will need a command line tool called kubectl. Instructions on how to install this for your specific operating system are available at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/#kubectl