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Nowadays software is build mostly targeting Linux. Life is great as a Mac OS user since we can pretty much install everything through ‘brew’. Unfortunately thing start going pear shape when we have Windows 10 machines as part of the team and the shared tooling just stops working.

The following post describes how to set up a Windows 10 desktop as a good Kube ready citizen in the Team.

STEP 1:

Set up an Ubuntu WSL machine as described below:

STEP 2:

Install the Kube and Docker tools on Ubuntu WSL:

STEP 3:

Connect Kubectl and Docker to the Windows side of things:

STEP 4:

Celebrate!

Cheers.