This blog post explores how to set up a full bare metal Kubernetes solution by installing all components on a local machine, using Virtual Box, Vagrant, and CoreOS. The author sets up their development environment with Vagrant 1.7.4 and CoreOS, installs Kubernetes 1.0.6, and configures the `kubectl` command-line tool for interacting with the Kubernetes API. They then create a virtual machine in VirtualBox using Vagrant, run Kubernetes on top of CoreOS, start the machine, configure `kubectl`, and set up a Kubernetes cluster running on the local machine. The author also sets up Couchbase by cloning its Kubernetes repository and will explore how to run Couchbase in the Kubernetes cluster in their next blog post.