Kubernetes is supported on a variety of platforms and OSes. For the examples in this book, I used an Ubuntu 16.04 Linux VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads) for my client and Google Compute Engine (GCE) with Debian for the cluster itself. We will also take a brief look at a cluster running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with Ubuntu.
To save some money, both GCP (https://cloud.google.com/free/) and AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/free/) offer free tiers and trial offers for their cloud infrastructure. It's worth using these free trials for learning Kubernetes, if possible.
Most of the concepts and examples in this book should work on any installation of a Kubernetes cluster. To get more information on other platform setups, refer to the Kubernetes getting started page, which will help you pick the right solution for your cluster: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/.
Most of the concepts and examples in this book should work on any installation of a Kubernetes cluster. To get more information on other platform setups, refer to the Kubernetes getting started page, which will help you pick the right solution for your cluster: http://kubernetes.io/docs/getting-started-guides/.