Getting started with minikube (Mac)

Minikube is a tool to setup a single node Kubernetes cluster. We will setup a single node cluster with the VirtualBox driver.

Install Minikube

Install Minikube using Homebrew

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"

Once Homebrew is installed, you can proceed with Minikube

brew install minikube

If which minikube fails you may have to remove the old minikube links and link the newly installed binary.

brew unlink minikube
brew link minikube

Install Minikube from binary

For X86:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-amd64
sudo install minikube-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

For ARM:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Install VirtualBox

brew install --cask virtualbox

Get the 4.19.94 based minikube.iso

Get the iso from s3://araalinetworks.cf/minikube.iso to /tmp/minikube.iso:

curl -o /tmp/minikube.iso https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/araalinetworks.cf/minikube.iso

Start the Minikube Kubernetes cluster

minikube start --iso-url=file:///tmp/minikube.iso --driver=virtualbox

Check status

minikube status

kubectl get pods -A

Deploy an application

kubectl create ns guestbook
kubectl apply -n guestbook -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/examples/master/guestbook/all-in-one/guestbook-all-in-one.yaml

Check the status