I am attempting to setup Kubernetes locally using a docker instance. I am following this documentation but get stuck at the point of creating a new service and exposing the ports.

I have the docker container pulled and I have a kubectl available.

When I run the command kubectl get nodes --show-labels I get the following

|NAME       | STATUS  |  AGE   |    LABELS                            |
|-----------|---------|--------|--------------------------------------|
|127.0.0.1  | Ready   |  1h    |    kubernetes.io/hostname=127.0.0.1  |

I now create a new service with kubectl run nginx --image=nginx --port=80 as per the docs. When I run docker ps I see a container that's been created using my local nginx:latest image.

CONTAINER_ID: 4192d1b423ec        
IMAGE: nginx
COMMAND: "nginx -g 'daemon off'"
CREATED: 37 minutes ago
STATUS: Up 37 minutes                           
NAMES: k8s_nginx.aab52821_nginx-198147104-qop91_default_f1cf5d8a-ef2d-11e5-b527-f0def1de109f_940ee216

The next step is where I'm having problems kubectl expose rc nginx --port=80 is supposed to expose the nginx image as a kubernetes service on port 80.

I get this in the terminal.

Error from server: replicationcontrollers "nginx" not found

So I started reading about replicationcontrollers, I understand the concepts but I do not know how they are configured or setup. This got me to thinking that I'm following what should be an idiot proof setup guide. Can anyone help me with this? I have added my docker and kubernetes versions below.

Version info

Docker version (Local Ubuntu 15.10)

Client:
 Version:      1.10.3
 API version:  1.22
 Go version:   go1.5.3
 Git commit:   20f81dd
 Built:        Thu Mar 10 15:59:07 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Server:
 Version:      1.10.3
 API version:  1.22
 Go version:   go1.5.3
 Git commit:   20f81dd
 Built:        Thu Mar 10 15:59:07 2016
 OS/Arch:      linux/amd64

Kubernetes version

Client Version: version.Info{
    Major:"1", 
    Minor:"2", 
    GitVersion:"v1.2.0",
    GitCommit:"5cb86ee022267586db386f62781338b0483733b3",
    GitTreeState:"clean"
}

Server Version: version.Info{
    Major:"1",
    Minor:"2",
    GitVersion:"v1.2.0",
    GitCommit:"5cb86ee022267586db386f62781338b0483733b3",
    GitTreeState:"clean"
}