In this lab, you’ll learn how to bootstrap a Kubernetes cluster using MicroK8s.

• Developer workstations
• IoT
• Edge computing
• Rapid testing, experimentation, and learning

Why MicroK8s? Because it’s:

• Small: Developers want the smallest K8s for laptop and workstation development. MicroK8s provides a standalone K8s compatible with Azure Kubernetes Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and Google Kubernetes Engine when you run it on Ubuntu.
• Simple: Minimize administration and operations with a single-package install that has no moving parts, for simplicity and certainty. All dependencies and batteries included.
• Secure: Updates are available for all security issues and can be applied immediately or scheduled to suit your maintenance cycle.
• Current: MicroK8s tracks upstream and releases beta, release candidate, and final bits the same day as upstream K8s. You can track the latest K8s or stick to any release version from 1.10 onward.
• Comprehensive: MicroK8s includes a curated collection of manifests for common K8s capabilities and services (e.g., meshes, observability, ingress, auto updates, and GPGPU bindings).

In this lab, you will learn how to:

    ☐ Install MicroK8s on Linux
    ☐ USe MicroK8s just like other Kubernetes clusters
    ☐ Access a Kubernetes Dashboard
    ☐ Add worker nodes to a MicroK8s cluster

MicroK8s is a certified Kubernetes distribution supported by Canonical as a silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. We’ll update this lab as new releases roll out.