One Command, One Working Kubernetes Cluster! Building My Daily-Driver Lab on OrbStack.
Noah Makau
Part 2 of 7 — The Mac Kubernetes Lab: A Production-Mirror Setup from Scratch. Previously in Part 1: I walked through why I replaced Multipass with OrbStack, the dual-cluster architecture I settled on, and a preview of the M1 vs M4 CNI problem that’s coming in Part 4. The cluster I am going to set up in this article is the one I spend most of my working day inside. It’s a single-node Kubernetes cluster, always on, idles at around 512 MB of memory, has real LoadBalancer IPs and wildcard DNS out of