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# 3. Minikube & Kubectl

### Minikube

* It is a one node K8s cluster
* Creates Virtual Box on machine
* Runs in that VirtualBox
* Used for testing purposes

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### Kubectl

* Used to interact with the Kubernetes Cluster
* Interacts with the Master Process's API Server

#### Main Commands CheetSheets

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