Stand up a real cluster on AWS EC2 with Kind, expose services with MetalLB, isolate workloads with Namespaces, and route traffic with Ingress.
Setting Up a Kind Cluster on AWS EC2
Provision an AWS EC2 instance and use Kind to run a real multi-node Kubernetes cluster inside Docker.
MetalLB: LoadBalancer Services on Kind
Give LoadBalancer Services a real EXTERNAL-IP on Kind by installing MetalLB, configuring an address pool, and advertising it over L2/ARP.
Namespaces
Divide a single Kubernetes cluster into isolated virtual environments for teams and stages, and learn how workloads in different namespaces find each other.
Ingress and the NGINX Ingress Controller
Understand why a single smart router beats a NodePort or LoadBalancer per Service, and how the NGINX Ingress Controller turns Ingress rules into real traffic routing.