Educates runs on Kubernetes, so to try it on your machine you need a local cluster. You don't have to build one: the Educates CLI creates a Kind cluster with Educates installed, in one command. Kind runs the cluster's nodes as containers, so you need a container runtime first. These guides use Docker Desktop, the runtime the Educates CLI has been tested with most.

You will also install kubectl, the Kubernetes CLI, to look inside the cluster in more detail than the Educates CLI shows.

The Educates CLI runs on macOS and Linux. On Windows, work inside WSL, the Windows Subsystem for Linux, and follow the Linux instructions throughout.