Red Hat Container Development Kit is a great way to get started locally, if you want to deploy OpenShift on a VM there's an Ansible-based installed that will in

Red Hat Container Development Kit is a great way to get started locally, if you want to deploy OpenShift on a VM there's an Ansible-based installed that will interview you and install it on your VM's (since OpenShift is just a layer on top of k8s you can use all the underlying primitives if you don't want the additional features).