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Kubernetes Lab with Docker Desktop Guide

This page gives a simple flow for running Kubernetes practice workloads with Docker Desktop.

Suggested Flow

  1. Enable Kubernetes in Docker Desktop.
  2. Confirm the current context with kubectl config current-context.
  3. Check cluster health with kubectl get nodes.
  4. Deploy a small sample workload and expose it with a Service.
  5. Clean up the resources after testing.

Quick Validation

kubectl cluster-info
kubectl get nodes
kubectl get pods -A