Mead can be made as simple or as complicated as you want. Basically all you really need to start making mead (besides your ingredients) is something to hold the ingredients in while they ferment, and a way to vent the gas that is produced during fermentation (you may later also want bottles to put the mead in, but that’s a bit down the road). As far as fermentation vessels go, I get the impression that most people prefer the plastic buckets sold at most homebrew supply shops. Personally I prefer glass carboys as they allow me to see whats going on as the mead ferments. I take my clean and sanitized glass carboy, dump my ingredients in, mix them up, put an airlock on the top (which can also be purchased at any homebrew supply shop for $1-$2) and in about 10-14 months I have mead. Mind you this is the simplest way to do it and it can get a lot more complicated if you wish to make it that way. Most people, including myself, like to have multiple vessels, so that after a few weeks to months the mead can be siphoned off of the sediment that collects at the bottom. This sediment makes the mead murky and ugly looking and some believe it can give the mead bad flavors.