Baseline Tools Setup - Complete Edition

blinetoolsetup.md

Starter Kubernetes Dev Environment

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Setting up Basic Tools

Setting up CLI tools the way I like them

• Install Homebrew
  • Install Xcode
  • Intall Homebrew
• Install Git
• Install VSCode
  • Get Dracula Refined (Optional)
  • Material Icon Theme (Optional)
• Install OhMyZSH! (Optional)
  • Enable agnoster or amuse theme
• Install Powerline fonts (Optional)
• Install Fig (Optional)
  • Install Fig VSCode extension
  • Set theme to dracula

K8s Local development environment the way I like it

• Install Rancher Desktop
• Install K8s extensions in VSCode
  • Kubernets (MS)
  • YAML (RedHat)
• Install K9s (Optional)
• Install Metal LB
• Install NGINX OSS Ingress

Installng Homebrew

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Install Xcode

xcode-select --install

Install Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

Intalling Git

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Via Homebrew

brew install git

Install VSCodium or VSCode

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Via dmg download or Homebrew VSCode

brew install --cask visual-studio-code

VSCodium

brew install --cask vscodium

Install Oh My Zsh

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sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/master/tools/install.sh)"

Set the theme to agnoster or amuse Open the zshrc with VI

vi .zshrc

# Set name of the theme to load --- if set to "random", it will
# load a random theme each time oh-my-zsh is loaded, in which case,
# to know which specific one was loaded, run: echo $RANDOM_THEME
# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
ZSH_THEME="agnoster"<---ChangeThis

Install Powerline fonts

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Clone the powerline font repo

git clone https://github.com/powerline/fonts.git --depth=1

Run the insall script

cd fonts
./install.sh

Set powerline font in VScode/VSCodium

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• Download and install the font of your choice I picked "Mononoki Nerd Font"
• Install using the Mac Font Book and install all the fonts for Mac
• Open the command pallett View > Command Pallett
• Type "settings" and select the Prefrences: Open Settings (UI) option.
• In the search field type "terminal font"
• Under Terminal > Integrated: Font Family paste the following in the empty text field
• "Mononoki Nerd Font Mono"
• Set the font size from 12 to 16 (optional)

Install FIG

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Install FIG using Homebrew

brew install --cask fig

Local K3s Devopment Environment

Install Rancher Desktop

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Steps

• Run the install after downloading the install binary
• Once it completes a popup window will appear that allows you make seettings to the locak K3s cluster.
• accept the defaults.
• From the rancher menu select prefrences and navigate to the Kubernetes tab.
• Locate and diable Traefik apply and exit out of prefrences
• Next avigate to troubleshooting in the main RDT window
• Locate and click on the Rest Kubernetes button to reset the cluster
• In the following pop up window select the option to delete container images and click reset.
• Once this process finishes you will have a base cluster to work with.

Add two K8s focused extensions to VSCode

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Steps

• Navigate to the extesions UI in VSCode
• search for Kubernetes
• Install the Kubernetes extesion from MS
• The YAML one from Red Hat should automaticall install with the MS one.
• Navigate to the K8s UI by clicking on the kubernetes logo in the left navigation bar.
• Validate the the Rancher cluster showes up in the first panel

Install k9s

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Via Homebrew

 brew install derailed/k9s/k9s

To start k9s just open a terminal session in VSCode, I like to put mine in the top window in vscode, and type.

k9s

Note: nothing will show up untill the local single node cluster for Rancher Desktop is active.

Install Metal LB

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Deploy MetalLB

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/metallb/metallb/v0.13.9/config/manifests/metallb-native.yaml

Create and Apply the following manifests to add your IP range Note: you will need to set aside a bank on your local network. note: these are already created in the repo just update the addresses to suite your environment apply the manifests

IPAddressPool.yaml

apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: IPAddressPool
metadata:
  name: first-pool
  namespace: metallb-system
spec:
  addresses:
  - 192.168.1.95-192.168.1.99

L2Advertisement.yaml

apiVersion: metallb.io/v1beta1
kind: L2Advertisement
metadata:
  name: example
  namespace: metallb-system
spec:
  ipAddressPools:
  - first-pool

Run the following commands

kubectl apply -f IPAddressPool.yaml
kubectl apply -f L2Advertisement.yaml

Install NGINX OSS Ingress via CLI

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Install using helm (preferred) or Install using manifests

Add the NGINX repo

helm repo add nginx-stable https://helm.nginx.com/stable

Update via Helm

helm repo update

Install NGINX Ingress controller

helm install my-release nginx-stable/nginx-ingress

Note: "my-release" can be changed to any name I like to use "nic"

Uninstall NGINX Ingress Controller

helm uninstall my-release

Validate that the nginx service was properly assigned an external IP while in the "nic" namespace run the following

kubectl get all

You should see somthing similar to the following

NAME                                     READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
pod/nic-nginx-ingress-55dd46fcf9-smvng   1/1     Running   0          62s

NAME                        TYPE           CLUSTER-IP      EXTERNAL-IP    PORT(S)                      AGE
service/nic-nginx-ingress   LoadBalancer   10.43.171.131   192.168.1.95   80:30888/TCP,443:31517/TCP   62s

NAME                                READY   UP-TO-DATE   AVAILABLE   AGE
deployment.apps/nic-nginx-ingress   1/1     1            1           62s

NAME                                           DESIRED   CURRENT   READY   AGE
replicaset.apps/nic-nginx-ingress-55dd46fcf9   1         1         1       62s