Category: Kubernetes Install

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Posted on by Jay Jo

minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes.

All you need is Docker (or similarly compatible) container or a Virtual Machine environment, and Kubernetes is a single command away: minikube start

What you’ll need

Before installing Minikube, you need docker(or VM) and Kubectl

Install Docker
Install Docker

Install and Set up kubectl

1. Download the latest release with the command:

curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

2. Make the kubectl binary executable.

chmod +x ./kubectl

3. Move the binary in to your PATH.

sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

4. Test to ensure the version you installed is up-to-date:

kubectl version --client

Install Minikube

If the Brew Package Manager installed:

brew install minikube

If which minikube fails after installation via brew, you may have to remove the minikube cask and link the binary:

brew cask remove minikube
brew link minikube

Otherwise, download minikube directly:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-amd64
sudo install minikube-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

If the Chocolatey Package Manager is installed, use it to install minikube:

choco install minikube

Otherwise, download and run the Windows installer

Binary download

sudo apt install curl
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Add a new user (username= developer) in Unbuntu

sudo su
adduser developer
usermode -aG sudo developer
su - developer

Add the user to the Docker Group

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker developer

Start minikube with Docker

minikube start --driver=docker

If you successfully install minikube on your machine, check minikube status and node.

minikube status
# minikube
# type: Control Plane
# host: Running
# kubelet: Running
# apiserver: Running
# kubeconfig: Configured
kubectl cluster-info
# Kubernetes master is running at https://192.168.49.2:8443
# KubeDNS is running at https://192.168.49.2:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
kubectl get nodes
# NAME       STATUS   ROLES    AGE   VERSION
# minikube   Ready    master   26m   v1.19.2

kubectl get nodes -o wide
# NAME       STATUS   ROLES    AGE   VERSION   INTERNAL-IP    EXTERNAL-IP   OS-IMAGE           KERNEL-VERSION       CONTAINER-RUNTIME
# minikube   Ready    master   28m   v1.19.2   192.168.49.2   <none>        Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   4.15.0-122-generic   docker://19.3.8
  • single-node Kubernetes cluster and the name is minikube

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/

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