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Preparing Windows environment

Check prerequisites​

The following programs / APIs / SDKs should be installed in your system.

Setting up Docker Desktop​

The first time installing Docker Desktop might require some additional set up.

Windows​

To run docker desktop on windows wsl needs to be enabled. To do this follow the instructions provided here.

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Setting up Kubernetes on Docker Desktop​

  1. From the Docker Dashboard, select the Settings.
  2. Select Kubernetes from the left sidebar.
  3. Next to Enable Kubernetes, select the checkbox.
  4. Select Apply & Restart to save the settings and then select Install to confirm. This instantiates images required to run the Kubernetes server as containers, and installs the /usr/local/bin/kubectl command on your machine.

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Connecting to the Kubernetes Cluster​

Once you have installed Docker Desktop and enabled Kubernetes, you can use kubectl commands. To check if it works run the following command.

kubectl version -o=yaml

Which should yield a result like below.

clientVersion:
  buildDate: "2023-03-15T13:40:17Z"
  compiler: gc
  gitCommit: 9e644106593f3f4aa98f8a84b23db5fa378900bd
  gitTreeState: clean
  gitVersion: v1.26.3
  goVersion: go1.19.7
  major: "1"
  minor: "26"
  platform: windows/amd64
kustomizeVersion: v4.5.7

Connecting to Azure​

Binding the Kubernetes CLI to Azure can be done with the following command. Note that you have to be logged in to Azure for this to work.

az aks get-credentials -g <resource-group-name> -n <aks-cluster-name> --overwrite-existing

After executing the command, any kubectl commands will be run on the connected cluster. To connect to a different cluster, first retreive a list of all available clusters.

kubectl config get-contexts

Then the following command can be used to switch to the desired cluster.

kubectl config use-context <<NAME>>

Next​

Prepare Azure