To make sure everything is fine and our VM is ready, follow these steps:
- If you do not have 7z installed on your machine, download 7z from https://www.7-zip.org/download.html and install the 7z software.
- Download the base VM image from https://7362.me/vm.tar.7z to a folder of your choice.
- Select the folder and the vm.tar.7z file and click on Extract.
- It's time to start the VM. Navigate to the folder where the VM was extracted. Right-click on kube01.vmx and then click on Open with VMWare Player or VMWare Workstation.
- If VM prompts you to update your VMware software, cancel it. Alternatively, if it prompts you to update the VM tools in the VM, cancel it.
- Now, let's 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 from the VM:
$ dig +search +noall +answer google.com
If the VMnet8 subnet is set to 192.168.142.0 and your Windows machine has internet access, you should see the google.com IP addresses resolved in the preceding code block.
Now you are ready to install Kubernetes in your environment. You can skip straight to the Performing prerequisite tasks section. If you are using a macOS, the next section is for you.