Personal Minikube Setup

Local Kubernetes playground with GitOps (Flux), service mesh (Istio), observability, databases and stream processing — all bootstrapped via Makefile.

Purpose

This repository contains my personal configuration and automation scripts to quickly spin up a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube with commonly used add-ons and operators:

• Calico CNI
• Istio service mesh
• Flux GitOps
• Elastic stack (Elasticsearch + Kibana)
• Redis
• Logging stack

Prerequisites

Make sure you have these tools installed:

• minikube ≥ v1.30
• kubectl
• helm ≥ v3.10
• flux ≥ v2.0 (flux CLI)
• Decent amount of RAM (≥ 8–12 GB recommended when using Istio + Elastic + Flink)

Quick Start

1. Start Minikube (choose driver that works best for you)

   minikube start --cpus=6 --memory=12288 --driver=docker   # example
   # or
   minikube start --profile orbstack --cpus=4 --memory=8192