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Rancher 2.4 & Kubernetes on your Windows 10 laptop with multipass & k3s — Elasticsearch/Kibana in minutes!

Jason Yee
13 min readApr 4, 2020

THIS ARTICLE IS OUTDATED wrt installing Rancher, but all of the other steps could be helpful. Read the below article for the latest on getting Elasticsearch & Kibana in K8s

This article shows how to set up a minimal k3s Kubernetes dev env on your Windows 10 laptop using chocolatey & multipass, then installs Rancher and uses it to deploy Elasticsearch and Kibana workloads. The instructions adapt this article from the Rancher blog.

Updated for Rancher 2.5 with the only dependency being Docker which you probably already have https://jyeee.medium.com/kubernetes-rancher-2-5-on-your-windows-10-laptop-with-k3d-and-k3s-7404f288342f

This is an update to https://medium.com/@jyeee/rancher-2-3-on-windows-10-with-minikube-and-helm-e4e2ae962994

A similar article for macOS is here located at https://medium.com/@jyeee/kubernetes-on-your-macos-laptop-with-multipass-k3s-and-rancher-2-4-6e9cbf013f58

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Jason Yee
Jason Yee

Written by Jason Yee

Husband/Dad, problem solver, technologist, citizen airman, Eagle Scout ♥️🇺🇸

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