MiniKube - Install
Minikube is single K8s cluster for testing/dev purpose
Minikube requires docker
Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt-get update && \
sudo apt-get install docker.io -y
CentOS / RedHat
sudo yum install -y yum-utils \
device-mapper-persistent-data \
lvm2
sudo yum-config-manager \
--add-repo \
https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo
sudo yum install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io
Installing Minikube
curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
Checking Version
minikube version
Kubectl
Kubectl is a command line interface for running commands against Kubernetes clusters.
Installing
The kubectl version has to be within one minor version difference of the Kubernetes cluster. For example, a v1.2 client should work with v1.1, v1.2, and v1.3 master.
Kubectl can be installed on Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, RedHat operating systems.
Ubuntu / Debian
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
echo "deb https://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
CentOS / RedHat
cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF
yum install -y kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
For further information about kubectl installation method, please refer to the Kubernetes documentation.
Minikube Start
minikube start --vm-driver=none
Minikube status
minikube status
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at 10.128.0.6
Minikube Stop and Delete
minikube stop
minikube delete
Installation of Minikube with kvm2 driver – If you want install with a VM drive!
Installation of minikube
- Apparently installation from snap doesn’t work as expected, use curl for installation of the latest version.
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curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
Installation of kvm2
Install dependencies and configure user groups
sudo apt install libvirt-clients libvirt-daemon-system qemu-kvm libvirt-binsudo usermod -a -G libvirt $(whoami)newgrp libvirt
kvm2 installation
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/docker-machine-driver-kvm2 && sudo install docker-machine-driver-kvm2 /usr/local/bin/
Start minikube
minikube start --vm-driver=kvm2
## Sample Minikube run
kubectl run hello-minikube --image=gcr.io/google_containers/echoserver:1.4 --port=8080
kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube --type=NodePort
kubectl get services