This is the official guide here from OpenEBS.
Step 1.) Make sure you have the right version.
As of this time 2025-04, we need Kubernetes/Microk8s version 1.23 or higher (note this will continue to increment higher).
Usually a good sign of having the wrong/old version is that you will encounter namespace and other errors:
error: unknown flag: --namespace........
Kubernetes Easy Beginners Tutorial/Architecture Guide
Kubernetes is known as container orchestration and we should start at explaining the container part of it.
A Container is what runs the actual application and based on an Image, and are more comparable to something like an LXC Container, Virtuozzo/OpenVZ using the Linux Kernel Namespaces feature. Containers run these images as independent, isolated operating environments under the O........