We have had a number of people want to replicate locally for offline use cases (train/plane), reduced bandwidth use cases (home/plane/train), and cost reasons (laptop VMs are always cheaper than cloud). If you like Vagrant and Kubernetes checkout the Tectonic Sandbox[1] or if you don't want to use vagrant checkout minikube[2]. We (CoreOS) invested time into both projects for these reasons.

[1]: https://coreos.com/tectonic/sandbox [2]: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube