Local Kubernetes on Mac Apple Silicon without Docker

Install and use local Kubernetes on Mac Apple Silicon with Parallels Desktop for Mac

Audience consideration for this tutorial: Someone who wants to test the code on local Kubernetes cluster and has Apple Mac devices with Apple Silicon.

Prerequisite:

1. Apple Mac machine 💻 / 🖥️

2. Parallels Desktop (non-pro version will also work)

3. Some free storage on your SSD

Steps 🛠️:

1. Create a Linux VM

2. Install prerequisites in the Linux VM

3. Install Kubernetes (Let’s call it k8s henceforth) and related applications for the k8s deployment.

4. Cluster creation

Step 1:

• Download the rocky linux (a clone of RHEL). Here is the download link of rocky 9 for arm64 architecture (i.e. for Apple Silicon).

• Create a linux VM by following this guide: Install Linux virtual machine on a Mac with Apple M-Series chip .

• While installing, please select OS type as Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS Linux. Like this:

  

• Proceed with further process of the OS installation.

Step 2:

• Start the vm and then install prerequisites with below commands

sudo dnf install openssh-server
ip address # note down the ip address

PS: Please use the host IP address noted from above command to ssh the vm. It will be easy to just copy and paste commands from below section.

Step 3:

Install required libraries 👇 , GitHub link 🔗 for commands : k8s-kind-podman-installation-command.sh

Step 4:

• Create cluster through kind

kind create cluster # default cluster is name is kind
kubectl cluster-info # check k8s cluster info
#or
kubectl cluster-info --context kind-kind
podman ps # check podman status

Now you can use this cluster as any other normal testing k8s cluster. 😀😀