Initial Setup

Setting up the workshop environment.

This workshop is designed to work with Minishift but it will also work with any OpenShift or OKD derivative with little modification.

Decide what OS/Hypervisor combo works best for you here (They all will work for this workshop).

Then follow the guide provided in the link above for your desired combination. Setup should only take about 5 minutes.

Once you have installed and started Minishift, you will be given a URL to access the web console through a web browser. You can also type 'minishift oc-env' to be given a command to add the OpenShift CLI tools to your shell.

This workshop will run more efficiently by running Minishift with more than the default 4GB of RAM.

To do so, add --memory 8GB to the end of the minishift start command when you are starting the cluster, replacing 8GB with your desired amount of memory.