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Creating Kubernetes Extensions in Docker Desktop

This guest post is courtesy of one of our Docker Captains! James Spurin, a DevOps Consultant and Course/Content Creator at DiveInto, recalls his experience creating the Kubernetes Extension for https://www.docker.com/get-started.

When I initially encountered Docker Extensions, I wondered: “Can we use Docker Extensions to communicate with the inbuilt Docker-managed Kubernetes server provided in Docker Desktop?”

When launching the vcluster Docker Extension, you’ll see that it uses a control loop that verifies Docker Desktop is running Kubernetes.

With loft.sh’s ‘Docker Desktop Kubernetes Service is Running’ control loop and the kubeconfig capture logic, we have the key ingredients to create our Kubernetes-based Docker Extensions.