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1. Install Rancher Desktop on Windows
Thanks to the engineers at Rancher Labs / SUSE for making it easy to install the Container Runtime and create a Kubernetes cluster on Windows!
After downloading, Rancher Installer will automatically install all, we just need to wait! This is the main interface of Rancher Desktop:
You can choose to use Container Runtime as docker or docker , nerdctl scripts are the same and can interact with COMPOSE
Next, select enable Kubernetes if you want to create a K8S cluster on Windows, Rancher will support installing both kubectl and helm tools for you.
2. Hello World Example
In this article, I will show you how to simply get started with Rancher Desktop by building a container image and deploying a pod to K8S from the created image.
Create a folder containing the index.html file with VSCODE
1 2 | <h1>Hello World from NGINX!!</h1> |
Create a Dockerfile file with the following content:
1 2 3 4 | FROM nginx:alpine COPY ./nginx/index.html /usr/share/nginx/html |
Build images
1 2 3 4 | nerdctl --namespace k8s.io build --tag nginx-helloworld:latest . docker build --tag nginx-helloworld:latest . |
Check the created container images
1 2 3 4 | nerctl -n k8s.io images docker images |
Deploy to Kubernetes
Use the flag –image-pull-policy=Never to let K8S use local images instead of pulling images from a remote repository.
1 2 3 4 | kubectl run hello-world --image=nginx-helloworld:latest --image-pull-policy=Never --port=80 kubectl port-forward pods/hello-world 8080:80 |
Open a web browser at localhost:8080 , and you should see the message Hello World from NGINX!!.