The Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer laptop is an ideal machine to use for local cloud-native application development with Kubernetes and I’m going to show you how to get started.
Using MicroK8s is ideal for this use case, it’s a project from Canonical to enable lightweight single or multi-node Kubernetes environments. The XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition is a powerful laptop and if you want to know more about the specs please check out my colleague Barton George's blog for the details. Let’s explore why Dell XPS 13 Plus Developer Edition with MicroK8s is a great fit for cloud native development.
- The XPS 13 Developer edition comes with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux.
- It comes preloaded with development toolchains like Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust and more.
- Native support for snapd and the snap store.
- Easily install cloud native developer tooling such as Canonicals’ MicroK8s and Docker via snap.
- Native options for lightweight virtualization with LXD and multipass.
- MicroK8s closely follows upstream Kubernetes releases with snap channels.
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