Minikube Jump Start

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

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection
• Container or virtual machine manager, such as: Docker, Hyperkit, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels, Podman, VirtualBox, or VMWare

Highlights

• Supports the latest Kubernetes release (+6 previous minor versions)
• Cross-platform (Linux, macOS, Windows)
• Deploy as a VM, a container, or on bare-metal
• Multiple container runtimes (CRI-O, containerd, docker)
• Docker API endpoint for blazing fast image pushes
• Advanced features such as LoadBalancer, filesystem mounts, and FeatureGates
• Addons for easily installed Kubernetes applications
• Supports common CI environments

Kubectl

Use kubectl inside minikube

By default, kubectl gets configured to access the kubernetes cluster control plane inside minikube when the minikube start command is executed.

Accessing apps

How to access applications running within minikube

There are two major categories of services in Kubernetes:

• NodePort
• LoadBalancer

minikube supports either.

Addons

Details on maintained minikube addons

Addons are maintained extensions of minikube used for added functionality for Kubernetes.

Dashboard

Dashboard

minikube has integrated support for the Kubernetes Dashboard UI.

Overview

The Dashboard is a web-based Kubernetes user interface. You can use it to:

• deploy containerized applications to a Kubernetes cluster
• troubleshoot your containerized application
• manage the cluster resources
• get an overview of applications running on your cluster
• creating or modifying individual Kubernetes resources (such as Deployments, Jobs, DaemonSets, etc)

For example, you can scale a Deployment, initiate a rolling update, restart a pod or deploy new applications using a deploy wizard.

Basic usage