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title: "Kubernetes Cluster Setup"
date: 2018-10-03T10:21:11-07:00
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weight: 120
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In addition to the managed Amazon EKS solution, there are many tools available to help bootstrap and configure a self-managed Kubernetes cluster.  They include:

* [Minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/) – Development and Learning
* [Kops](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops) – Learning, Development, Production
* [Kubeadm](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/create-cluster-kubeadm/) – Learning, Development, Production
* [Docker for Mac](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/#kubernetes) - Learning, Development
* [Kubernetes IN Docker](https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind) - Learning, Development

Alongside these open source solutions, there are also many commercial options available.

Let's take a look at Amazon EKS!