To complete the exercises in this chapter, you will need the following:
- A Windows 10/Apple MacBook, as per the minimum configurations requirement
- A Kubernetes environment
- Internet access to your host machine in order to download applications in the VM running Kubernetes
For detailed information regarding the installation of Kubernetes, please refer to Chapter 6, Building Your Own Kubernetes Environment. The scripts that are used for the Linkerd section of this book are managed at https://github.com/servicemeshbook/linkerd.
Check if the keepalived pods are showing a READY 1/1 state and that the STATUS is Running:
$ kubectl -n keepalived get pods
The keepalived load balancer was installed in Chapter 9, Installing Istio.
The scripts that are used for Linkerd are available at https://github.com/servicemeshbook/linkerd. Let's clone the git repository to get the scripts as it relates to Linkerd for our lab exercises:
$ cd ~/ # Switch to home directory
$ git clone https://github.com/servicemeshbook/linkerd.git
$ cd linkerd
$ git checkout stable-2.6.0
$ cd scripts
Now that we have the source code, we will install the Linkerd CLI.