Tutorial: Configuring Kubernetes 1.6 DevTest Environment in DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is an affordable cloud computing platform for developers. With presence across America, Asia, and Europe, it is one of the fastest growing public cloud services company. Kubernetes is also gaining ground, in the container orchestration ecosystem. Many businesses are considering it as the container management platform for production workloads.

This tutorial walks you through the steps involved in configuring a multi-node Kubernetes cluster in DigitalOcean from a Mac. What’s unique about this guide is that it shows you the tips and tricks to take advantage of the features available in DigitalOcean. We will learn how to effectively use the concepts of cloud-config, and the recently announced load balancer feature in DigitalOcean.

Some of these tricks can also be easily applied to other public cloud environments.

The final step will show you how to deploy a microservices application exposed through a load balancer.

You can download the scripts and the YAML file for sample application from GitHub. There is also a video walk-through of the setup available on YouTube.

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