6th of May 2024

Attaching a shell to a running container via the DevContainer Visual Studio Code extension

Running a local Kubernetes cluster in a Lima VM with Colima

1. Install colima
2. Start a Kubernetes cluster with

   colima start --kubernetes 
   

3. Switch to the created Kubernetes context

   kubectl config set-context colima
   

4. Check that you have access to the Kubernetes cluster running in Colima

   $  kubectl get all --all-namespaces
   NAMESPACE     NAME                                          READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
   kube-system   pod/local-path-provisioner-84db5d44d9-qwwtn   1/1     Running   0          26m
   kube-system   pod/coredns-6799fbcd5-g2w2b                   1/1     Running   0          26m
   kube-system   pod/metrics-server-67c658944b-4lzc7           1/1     Running   0          26m
   devspace      pod/app-devspace-74d8f4bc8-dttp9              1/1     Running   0          22m
   	
   NAMESPACE     NAME                     TYPE        CLUSTER-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)                  AGE
   default       service/kubernetes       ClusterIP   10.43.0.1     <none>        443/TCP                  26m
   kube-system   service/kube-dns         ClusterIP   10.43.0.10    <none>        53/UDP,53/TCP,9153/TCP   26m
   kube-system   service/metrics-server   ClusterIP   10.43.3.234   <none>        443/TCP                  26m
   
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