1-setting-up-local-clusters

Setting up the clusters

We want to create two clusters, one called dev and one called prod, to emulate a multi-environment set up. We can create a cluster with kind create cluster, and name the cluster by using the flag -n. Below is an example of a one-liner that creates the two clusters.

kind create cluster -n dev && kind create cluster -n prod

Switching between clusters

We can switch between the two clusters by running kubectl config use-context kind-<name-of-cluster>. In our scenario, the two commands would be kubectl config use-context kind-dev and kubectl config use-context kind-prod.