Self-Hosted Kubernetes: Deploying Docker Containers Locally With Minikube

Containerization is a cutting-edge DevOps technology which unifies the IT operations and Development domains. In recent times, virtualization using Virtual Machines has become an overkill for its large overhead on systems. As a lightweight alternative, containerization offers containers that constitute a package of an application along with all its dependencies that is required for it to execute. Containerization platforms help in building containers from images. Docker is a widely popular containerization platform. Containerization Orchestration tools manage these containers. Kubernetes is the front-runner of the emerging market of container orchestration tools. These software work together seamlessly in order to successfully implement containerization both locally and on the cloud. In this paper, we aim to deploy the container orchestration tool Kubernetes on a local system with a Docker sample container. The purpose of this is to ensure that all the configurations and management needed for a Docker container is set successfully on the local system before it is deployed onto the cloud or on the premise. The on-premise deployment use case is very important in domains such as finance and healthcare where organizations hesitate to upload confidential information on to the cloud for security reasons but still require scaling of their applications.