Answers: <p>I'd say the minimal viable configuration to test and get a good overview of pod placement would be 5 machines, 2 masters and 3 nodes.<br>
  This allows you to play with a master failure, placement of multiple pods "stretched" across the cluster, etc.</p>
  
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Body: <p>For example, to play with Docker Swarm in a way which makes sense you need 2 or better 3 hosts, right?</p>
  
  <p>What is that number for K8S?</p>
  
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Comments: This is a pretty cool way to get lots of cores running. . .
  https://hackernoon.com/diy-kubernetes-cluster-with-x86-stick-pcs-b0b6b879f8a7?gi=1437dce18a5e
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Title: What is a minimal viable number of hosts for an experimental Kubernetes cluster?
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ThreadText: # What is a minimal viable number of hosts for an experimental Kubernetes cluster?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-09-18)
  
  For example, to play with Docker Swarm in a way which makes sense you need 2 or better 3 hosts, right?
  
  What is that number for K8S?
  
  **Tags:** kubernetes, infrastructure
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: This is a pretty cool way to get lots of cores running. . . https://hackernoon.com/diy-kubernetes-cluster-with-x86-stick-pcs-b0b6b879f8a7?gi=1437dce18a5e  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2017-09-18. Score: 10 | Accepted answer
  
  I'd say the minimal viable configuration to test and get a good overview of pod placement would be 5 machines, 2 masters and 3 nodes.  
  This allows you to play with a master failure, placement of multiple pods "stretched" across the cluster, etc.
  
  
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