Tools and first-week setup

The tools a Kubernetes intern uses and how to set up your workspace in week one.

These are the main tools for Kubernetes tasks. You do not need all of them on day one; the Level 1 tasks tell you when to install each one.

Set up your workspace

Create a free GitHub account if you do not have one, with a professional username, and set up your LinkedIn profile: every task is submitted with a LinkedIn post.
Create one repository for the internship, for example kubernetes-internship, with a README that says who you are and what the repo holds.
Keep one folder per task, named with the task number and title, so mentors find your work quickly.
Commit small changes every day with clear messages. Your daily work report uses these commits as proof.
Never commit passwords, API keys or personal data. Put secrets in a .env file and add it to .gitignore.

Task	What to do
Why Kubernetes	In a repo named k8s-internship, explain containers, orchestration, and what the control plane, nodes, pods and kubelet do.
Local cluster	Create a local cluster with kind, minikube or k3d and check it with kubectl get nodes.
`kubectl basics`	Use kubectl get, describe, logs, exec and delete, and write a cheat sheet.
Your first pod	Write a Pod YAML for Nginx, apply it, port-forward to it and open it in the browser.