In the past, running a Kubernetes cluster on your laptop required several servers to get started or running heavyweight Virtual Machines in your local environment. Different projects began in recent years to make it easier to get started with Kubernetes in your computer and remove the dependency with VMs. This post will cover 3 of them to help you get started with Kubernetes on your laptop just by using Docker.

First of all, Kubernetes is an open source platform to manage workloads by abstracting the underlying infrastructure. It helps you manage microservices containers and makes them portable across clouds, including your laptop. As a developer, you may care about Kubernetes because it is the defacto standard to deploy and manage containerized applications.

Source: DZone