Digital Ocean - Kubernetes Cluster

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*Step by step approach to create kubernetes clusters in Digital Ocean *

Step 1 : Using Digital Ocean Cloud
Use the Referral code to register in Digital Ocean - https://m.do.co/c/d71c3ad04039 and you will get 200 dollar credits for creating clusters and practice, this credits are valid for 2 months and it will be sufficient to learn kubernetes with practice.

If you have credits you can use the choice of your cloud provider.

Step 2 : Login to Digital Ocean and Go to projects in the left top corner and then click on New Project

Enter the mandatory fields and then click on create project

Step 3 : Creating Cluster

Step 3.1 :

Choose the Region - Selected London for demo

Step 3.2 : Left the default values for VPC and version

Step 3.3 : Select the scaling type as Fixed Size

Step 3.4 : Enter new node details

Node pool name : srini-node-1-k8s
Node plan : $12/month
Machine Type :Basic nodes (its cheaper one, select other based on your needs)
Nodes : 1 ( By default it comes with 3 , change to 1 for practice, if you want can have more nodes)

Step 3.5: Finalize and create the cluster

Name of the cluster
Project
Tags

It will take couple of minutes to create cluster

Step 4 : Configuration of Kubernetes cluster in Windows System

Step 4.1 : Download config file

Step 4.2 : Copy the config file in the same folder where kubectl.exe exists

kubectl --kubeconfig "srini-k8s-kubeconfig.yaml" get nodes
srini-k8s-kubeconfig.yaml -> Is the config file name downloaded from digital ocean cluster
Every time we need to mention the config file to get nodes
To avoid this ,we need to copy the config file under the .kube folder and more details mentioned in step 4.3

Step 4.3: Go to C:\Users\ Select the user based on your login

Check if any folder with .kube folder exists , if not create one