August 2020 – Technology evangelist

We can create mulit-node kubernetes setup on Windows laptop/VM as well. Mostly if you want to learn or try and test Kubernetes concepts.

I am using Windows 2012 server, it will work on other Windows version as well.

We use Virtualbox and Vagrant to configure Kubernetes nodes.

Perform following steps as pre-requisites.

	# Author: vishmule
	## These steps will install VirtualBox and Vagrant on Windows VM

	# Install chocolatey package manager for Windows.

	Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Scope Process -Force; [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol -bor 3072; iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 -UseBasicParsing \| iex

	# Install VirtuaBox on Winodws

	choco install virtualbox -y

	# Install Vagrant on Windows

	choco install vagrant -y

	# Install Virtualbox guest plugin for Vagrant

	vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

	# Download Wget package for Windows.

	http://downloads.sourceforge.net/gnuwin32/wget-1.11.4-1-setup.exe