Kubernetes on your macOS laptop with multipass, k3s, and Rancher 2.4 — Elasticsearch/Kibana in minutes!

Jason Yee
12 min readApr 3, 2020

This article shows how to set up a minimal k3s Kubernetes dev env on macOS Catalina using multipass, then installs Rancher and uses it to deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana workloads. The instructions adapt this article from the Rancher blog.

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