Minikube
Minikube is a single node Kubernetes Cluster used to learn and experiment K8s.
Installation of Minikube
In this documentation, we install a Minikube K8s Cluster on an OSX machine running VMWare Fusion 13.
What is Minikube ? Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster on your machine so that you can try out Kubernetes for your daily development work.
Step 1 - Initial check
To check if virtualization is supported on macOS, run the following command on your terminal.
sysctl -a | grep -E --color 'machdep.cpu.features|VMX'
Step 2 - Install kubectl
Make sure you have kubectl installed. You can install it using brew:
brew install kubectl
Homebrew is a free and open-source software package manager in mac that simplifies the installation of software.
Verify kubectl version:
kubectl version --short
Step 4 - Install a Hypervisor
If you do not already have one installed. It could be one of these:
- HyperKit
- VirtualBox
- VMware Fusion (not supported on Mx)
- Qemu
Step 5 - Install and start Minikube
The easiest way to install Minikube on macOS (M2) is using Homebrew, and specifying that we are using QEMU.
brew install qemu
brew install socket_vmnet
brew tap homebrew/services
HOMEBREW=$(which brew) && sudo ${HOMEBREW} services start socket_vmnet
brew install minikube
minikube start --driver qemu --network socket_vmnet
To install Minikube on macOS (Intel) is using Homebrew, and specifying that we are using VMWare.
brew install minikube
minikube version
minikube start --driver='vmware'
Once minikube started successfully , we can verify its status
minikube status
minikube
type: Control Plane
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubeconfig: Configured
kubectl is automatically configured to use the new minikube cluster.
Step 7 - More commands
After you have confirmed whether Minikube is working with your chosen hypervisor, you can continue to use Minikube or you can stop your cluster. To stop your cluster, run:
minikube stop
To access the Minikube Dashboard:
minikube dashboard
minikube delete
Deletes a local Kubernetes cluster. This command deletes the VM, and removes all associated files.
Utilization
This section describe some of the main commands to use to manage a K8s Cluster, deploy containers, pods, etc.
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