Getting Started With Local Kubernetes Cluster

This chapter contains guides on how to get started with Gefyra and different local Kubernetes solutions. These guides are for a single user on a local machine.

Workflow for single users

This workflow with Gefyra is an shortcut for local connections: gefyra up takes care of creating a default Gefyra Client, generating the connection configuration and setting up the connection to the cluster.

Local Kubernetes providers

Follow along these guides to connect Gefyra with your preferred Kubernetes provider.

📄️ Colima Kubernetes

This guide will show you how to use Gefyra for the local development of a Kubernetes application running in Colima Kubernetes.

📄️ Docker Desktop Kubernetes (OSX)

This example is really similar to the k3d getting started guide.

📄️ k3d

This guide will show you how to use Gefyra for the local development of a Kubernetes application running in k3d.

📄️ kind

This guide will show you how to use Gefyra for the local development of a Kubernetes application running in kind.

📄️ Minikube

Please refer to the general getting started guide for Gefyra](/docs/getting-started-with-gefyra) as this is about Minikube, too.

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