Hello-Home

Hello

Let's check if we got everything ready:

• A laptop/device/server with a minimum of 4 GB of RAM (if you got 8 is perfect)

• Passion for AI in general

• 30 mins of your time for each section

• Did you already got k3ai-cli installed? If not go to the section

• kubectl (don't ask yet just download it from

• k9s (you'll thank us later... download it from )

Okay if we got everything let's start. We will use k3ai-cli to do everything so you don't really have to learn how to do things over than learn k3ai. The diagram below shows you how the various k3ai-cli command will drive you through the Hello* guides

First Step

The first step is to learn how to install the cluster (unless you don't have one already). K3ai support various configurations:

• Local deployments

• Cloud deployments

We make use of a configuration file to drive the various installation steps so, while the main goal of K3ai is not to deploy Kubernetes clusters we aim to make the life of our users as simple as possible.

Note: are you an expert in automation and cluster deployment (K8s)? Help us and add some nice tooling to K3ai.

K3ai currently support the following local clusters:

• Rancher K3s -

• Mirantis K0s -

• KinD -

On the cloud side we do offer support for:

• Civo Cloud -

• AWS - (Work In Progress)

This guide will use the local installation.

Home

Open a terminal window and simply type the following:

What will happen is the following:

1. If it does not exist a folder named .k3ai will be created under your home directory (i.e.: in Linux under /home/yourusername/) inside this directory we will download a sample config.yaml file.

2. The config.yaml has a default installation cluster: KinD that requires docker to be installed.

Home Rebuild

An alternative way to install a cluster and be able to choose the favorite flavor is to use a slightly different command

Let's go into more details here's the full list of options:

• k3ai init --local k3s

• k3ai init --local k0s

• k3ai init --local kind

In case of Cloud:

• k3ai init --cloud civo

Now to sum it up here's a video that shows how it works.

Home Rebuild - Foundation

As we mentioned at the beginning of this guide k3ai support a config file as well. The config file looks like the one below and is located at <home user folder>/.k3ai/config.yaml but k3ai support also a custom location through k3ai init --config <yourpath to config file>

For cloud there a couple of extra configs like the one below

Done your Hello Home is ready! You may proceed to the section