Minikube

wikipedia:Minikube (May 2016) is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a Virtual Machine (VM) on your laptop.

Features

• DNS
• NodePorts
• ConfigMaps and Secrets
• Dashboards
• Container Runtime: Docker, CRI-O, and containerd
• Enabling CNI (Container Network Interface)
• Ingress: minikube addons enable ingress
• Install

Installation

• brew install minikube, previously brew cask install minikube
• snap install minikube

• Install from mainstream

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_amd64.deb

/usr/local/bin/minikube
-bash: /usr/local/bin/minikube: cannot execute binary file

Ubuntu, macOS:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_arm64.deb
sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_arm64.deb
minikube start

multipass launch minikube

Commands

• minikube status
• minikube start (minikube stop)
• kubectl create deployment hello-minikube --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.10
• minikube service hello-minikube --url
• minikube dashboard
• minikube status
• minikube version
• minikube --help

Information

• kubectl get apiservices
• kubectl get services -A

kubectl get nodes
NAME       STATUS   ROLES    AGE     VERSION
minikube   Ready    master   8m55s   v1.18.0

kubectl get all
NAME                 TYPE        CLUSTER-IP   EXTERNAL-IP   PORT(S)   AGE
service/kubernetes   ClusterIP   10.96.0.1    <none>        443/TCP   9m47s

Commands

• minikube addons
• minikube addons list
• minikube addons enable ingress
• kubectl get pods -n kube-system
• minikube delete
• minikube ssh

Activities

• Read https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/faq/

Related terms

• Minishift
• Katacoda Kubernetes playground
• Play with Kubernetes
• KinD (Kubernetes in Docker)
• MicroK8s
• Skaffold
• ~/.minikube/
• helm install
• k3s
• Hostpath
• k8s.io/minikube-hostpath
• Orbstack

See also

• minikube: [status | start | stop | version | addons | addons list | addons enable | dashboard | logs | tunnel | ssh | config | image | delete ], config set minikube start --vm=true, kicbase, ~/.minikube/, minikube --help, Minikube changelog
• kubectl get: [ all | componentstatus | pods | apiservices | events | event| nodes | replicaset | services | svc | namespaces| hpa | secret | deployments | serviceaccounts | endpoints | daemonset | networkpolicy ], kubectl get -h
• Play with Kubernetes, Katacoda, minikube, KinD (Kubernetes in Docker), Amazon EKS Workshop, MicroK8s, k3s, Iximiuz, KodeKloud
• Minikube, k3s, MicroK8s

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/