What is Minikube: Minikube is the 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 for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it
day-to-day.
Lets understand basic pieces of Minikube/Kubernets before start:
- Container – In Minikube, containers are used as the building blocks of creating applications.
- Pod – Pod is a collection of one or more containers that share storage and network resources. Pods contain the definition of how the containers should be run in Minikube. Minikube uses these definitions to maintain the necessary resources. For example, you can define you need two pods. During execution, if one pod goes down, Minikube will automatically fire up a new pod.
- Service – Because pods are replaceable, Minikube needs an abstraction layer to keep the interaction between the different pods seamless. For example, if a pod dies and a new pod is created, the application users shouldn’t get impacted in the details of network addresses and related issues. Services are wrappers around the pods to create levels of abstraction.
- Master – Master coordinates the cluster. It’s like the brains of the operation.
- Node – Workers who run the pods.
- kubectl – It’s the command line interface for running commands on Kubernetes cluster.
Step 1: Run update on system
sudo apt update
sudo apt update
Step 2: Install supporting packages
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
Step 3: Install virualbox for virtulization
sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox virtualbox-ext-pack
Step 4: Install latest version of Minicuke
sudo wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo chmod +x minikube-linux-amd64
sudo mv minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
sudo apt-get install -y apt-transport-https
Step 3: Install virualbox for virtulization
sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox virtualbox-ext-pack
Step 4: Install latest version of Minicuke
sudo wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo chmod +x minikube-linux-amd64
sudo mv minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
Step 5: Start minikube
sudo minikube start --vm-driver=none
sudo minikube start --vm-driver=none
Step 6: Verify Minikube installation
sudo minikube version
sudo minikube version
sudo minikube status
Step 7: Now Install Cubectl
sudo curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo echo "deb [arch=amd64 allow-insecure=yes allow-downgrade-to-insecure=yes] http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
sudo curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo echo "deb [arch=amd64 allow-insecure=yes allow-downgrade-to-insecure=yes] http://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt -y install kubectl
sudo apt -y install kubectl
Step 8: Verify Kubectl installation
sudo kubectl version -o json
Step 9: Access Expose Minikube dashboard to access it
sudo minikube dashboard --url # This will generate url to access with web browser
sudo kubectl version -o json
Step 9: Access Expose Minikube dashboard to access it
sudo minikube dashboard --url # This will generate url to access with web browser
Some other useful commands:
kubectl get pods --all-namespacesminikube stop
minikube addons list
minikube ssh
kubectl get nodes
kubectl cluster-info
minikube delete
