Installing Minikube

Minikube supports Kubernetes features such as:

1. DNS
2. NodePorts
3. ConfigMaps and Secrets
4. Dashboards
5. Container Runtime: Docker, CRI-O, and containerd
6. Enabling CNI (Container Network Interface)
7. Ingress
8. PersistentVolumes of type hostPath

Prerequisites

1. To check if virtualization is supported on Linux, run the following command and verify that the output is non-empty:

grep -E --color 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo

2. Make sure you have kubectl installed. You can install kubectl according to the instructions in Install and Setup kubectl.
   

Step 1: Update system

Run the following commands to update all system packages to the latest release:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2: Install KVM or VirtualBox Hypervisor

For VirtualBox users, install VirtualBox using:

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0

Step 3: Download minikube

download and install the minikube binary:

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
chmod +x minikube
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
sudo install minikube /usr/local/bin/

Confirm version installed:

minikube version

Step 4: Install kubectl on Ubuntu / Debian

download and install the kubectl binary:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.18.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Confirm version installed:

kubectl version -o json 

Step 5: Starting minikube

minikube start --driver=virtualbox
minikube status

Step 6: Minikube Basic operations

To check cluster status, run:

kubectl cluster-info

To View Config, use:

kubectl config view

To check running nodes:

kubectl get nodes

Access minikube VM using ssh:

minikube ssh

To stop a running local kubernetes cluster, run:

minikube stop

To delete a local kubernetes cluster, use:

minikube delete

Step 7: Enable Kubernetes Dashboard

minikube addons list

To open directly on your default browser, use:

minikube dashboard