To make sure everything is fine and that our VM is ready, follow these steps:
- Download the 7z software by installing the free 7z Unarchiver from Apple's App Store.
- Now download the base VM image from https://7362.me/vm.tar.7z to a folder of your choice.
- To launch the 7z software, select the folder and the vm.tar.7z file and double-click on it to extract the files.
- Start the VM by navigating to the folder where VM was extracted. Right-click on kube01.vmx and then click on Open with VMWare Fusion.
- Wait for the VM to start and then perform a sanity check. Double-click on Terminal.
The username is user and the password is password. The root password is password.
- Test the internet connectivity of the VM:
$ dig +search +noall +answer google.com
If the VMnet8 subnet was set to 192.168.142.0 and your macOS has internet access, you should see the google.com IP addresses resolved in the preceding code.
You are ready to install Kubernetes in your environment. However, before we do that, let's perform some prerequisite tasks.