Minikube

Minikube 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
• Install

Installation

• brew install minikube, previously brew cask install minikube

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

Information

kubectl get apiservices
kubectl get services

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

minikube dashboard

Commands

• minikube addons
• minikube addons list
• minikube addons enable ingress

Related terms

• Minishift
• Kind (Kubernetes)
• MicroK8s

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
• Kubernetes: distributions, tools, CKA, CKS, Kubernetes interfaces: CSI, CNI, installation, workloads, networking, kubeadm, Kubernetes API, Kubernetes API Server, kubectl, kubeadm, kubelet, kube-proxy, Cloud services: EKS, GKE, TKE, DKS, Helm, Kubernetes RBAC, Kubernetes deployments, Minikube, Rancher, OpenShift, Charmed Kubernetes, Ingress, Kubernetes scheduler, Kubernetes Finalizers, logging, Kubernetes operator, Orka, kind:, Kubernetes namespaces, Kubernetes dashboard, Kubernetes Metrics Server, Field Selectors, CoreDNS, CRI, Kubernetes Topology Manager, Kubernetes governance: (SIG, KEP), Kustomize, controllers, ReadinessProbe, LivenessProbe, KOPS, K9s, Kui, k3s, ImagePullBackOff, PDB, EndPoints, Kots, metadata, Karpenter, Replicated.com, Kubernetes Authenticating, Kubernetes timeline, Changelog/Versions, service accounts, Kubernetes Pod Lifecycle, Kubernetes Conformance Certified, Kubernetes backup, Kubernetes Pod Security Admission, tEKS, Kubernetes events, Kubernetes ports, Kubernetes policies, Connect, addons, DoKC, Kubernetes control plane, Kubernetes Federation, Kubernetes info, Kubetest2, Sidecar (Kubernetes)