According to the documentation, Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. It has a large, rapidly growing ecosystem. Kubernetes services, support, and tools are widely available.

Running containers in production has always been the up and coming way to manage production workload. Aside from managing a variety of nodes through a singular manager, it can minimize costs. This will be a guide to setup Kubernetes on a Mac environment.

Installing Kubernetes on Mac

1. First, ensure that the Homebrew package manager is installed. Then run the command `brew tap homebrew/cask’
   

2. Proceed to install Docker for Mac which is used to create, manage, and run containers. This will allow us to create containers that will run in our Kubernetes Pods.
   

3. Install VirtualBox for Mac. Either install directly from the website or using this homebrew command brew cask install virtualbox. This will allow you to run virtual machines on your Mac.
   

4. Install kubectl which is a command-line interface that can interact with Kubernetes. Using homebrew, run brew install kubectl
   

5. Finally install Minikube which will run a Kubernetes cluster with a single node. Use the command curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.18.1/minikube-darwin-amd64 which is using the most recent update for the MAC distro.
   

6. Continue by running minikube start which will then start your cluster.