You may have received a promo/feature code when you attended a conference, meetup, or hackathon, but you have no experience with IBM Cloud yet, and you want to access the free Kubernetes cluster in theIBM Cloud as soon as possible, because you can use the cluster for your own “playing” and “testing”.
To create a the free Kubernetes cluster you need a “trial” (no credit card needed) or a “pay as you go” (credit card needed) IBM Cloud Account. You activate an IBM Cloud trial account with your promo/feature code. In both cases you can use the free Kubernetes cluster.
Select the Kubernetes service from the catalog and press free cluster.
Give the cluster a name like cloud-native
Press create
Follow the instructions in the “Access” tab, to access your cluster with kubectl from your local pc.
That’s all.
When you start with IBM Cloud you educate yourself with the badgeIBM Cloud Essentials related to IBM Cloud before you access the IBM Cloud. BTW, this way would be the best choice ;-). With IBM Cloud Essentials you have freeeducation and an official badge.
I hope this was useful for you and let’s see what’s next?
Greetings,
Thomas
PS: By the way, you can use the IBM Cloud for free, if you simply create an IBM Lite account. Here you only need an e-mail address.