How Did You Practice the Chapter 2 Labs in LFX259?

Hi @ijcent,

For the LFD259 - Kubernetes for Developers e-Learning course you can also stand up a local lab environment, instead of using a cloud services provider.

Based on the cloud VM details supplied in the demo videos from the introductory chapter of the course, you can provision two local Virtual Machines with the hypervisor of choice (that is supported by the OS of your host computer). Peer learners have successfully completed the lab exercises on popular local hypervisors such as VirtualBox/Vagrant, QEMU/KVM/KVM2, VirtManager, Hyper-V, Parallels, VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation.

On the hypervisor ensure the bridge network firewall is open to allow all inbound traffic from all sources, all protocols, to all port destinations.
With the hypervisor you need to provision two VMs, each of the following specs:
- 2 CPU
- 8 GB Memory
- 20+ GB disk
- 1 bridged network interface
- OS - Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (server recommended)

Once your VMs are provisioned, you can then log into each VM and proceed with the lab exercise 2.1 and download the necessary shell scripts and YAML manifests in the tarball (the .tar.xz file) onto each VM, and complete the steps of lab exercise 2.2 to install and bootstrap the two node Kubernetes cluster on the two VMs.

Regards,
-Chris