Local Development Platform Deployment

While the rest of the deployment guide focuses on full platform deployment, in this section, we explain how to set up a Kubernetes environment for the local deployment of the platform using Minikube, Nginx Ingress, MetalLB, and Cert-Manager. This setup is ideal for development and testing purposes in a local Kubernetes environment. It provides detailed instructions for configuring both Acrylic DNS (on Windows) and dnsmasq (on Linux/Mac) to route wildcard domains to the cluster IP.

The guide primarily focuses on using Minikube as the Kubernetes setup. For higher performance, you may opt to use Hyper-V (on Windows) or HyperKit (on macOS), or the Docker driver (on Linux).