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QuickStart

KubeVPN is Cloud Native Dev Environment, connect to kubernetes cluster network, you can access remote kubernetes cluster network, remote kubernetes cluster service can also access your local service. and more, you can run your kubernetes pod on local Docker container with same environment、volume、and network. you can develop your application on local PC totally.

Install server

you can install kubevpn server previously (it will automatically install by kubevpn by command kubevpn connect)

➜ helm repo add kubevpn https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn/master/charts
"kubevpn" has been added to your repositories
➜ helm search repo kubevpn
NAME            	CHART VERSION	APP VERSION	DESCRIPTION
kubevpn/kubevpn 	2.2.2        	v2.2.2     	A Helm chart for KubeVPN
➜  ~ helm install kubevpn kubevpn/kubevpn
NAME: kubevpn
LAST DEPLOYED: Thu Feb 15 21:36:57 2024
NAMESPACE: test
STATUS: deployed
REVISION: 1
TEST SUITE: None
NOTES:
1. Connect to cluster network by running these commands:
  kubevpn connect --namespace test
  export POD_IP=$(kubectl get pods --namespace test -l "app.kubernetes.io/name=kubevpn,app.kubernetes.io/instance=kubevpn" -o jsonpath="{.items[0].status.podIP}")
  ping $POD_IP

Install client

Install from GitHub release​

LINK

Install from custom krew index​

(
  kubectl krew index add kubevpn https://github.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn.git && \
  kubectl krew install kubevpn/kubevpn && kubectl kubevpn
)

Install from build it manually​

(
  git clone https://github.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn.git && \
  cd kubevpn && make kubevpn && ./bin/kubevpn
)

Install kubevpn-traffic-manager in cluster​

Install bookinfo as demo application​

kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn/master/samples/bookinfo.yaml

For clean up after test

kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubenetworks/kubevpn/master/samples/bookinfo.yaml