Minikube remote access

how-to.md

1. Run the minikube

minikube start --nodes 1

2. Proxy and expose kubernetes server api

kubectl proxy --address='0.0.0.0' --accept-hosts='^*$'

3. Expose the proxy port to access your cluster from outside
4. Copy your k8s config to the remote machine from ~/.kube/config and place it wherever you want
5. Edit the config:

• Change the cluster's ip in the config:

...
clusters:
- cluster:
    extensions:
    - extension:
        last-update: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 22:11:43 MSK
        provider: minikube.sigs.k8s.io
        version: v1.21.0
      name: cluster_info
    server: http://<your-ip>:8001
  name: minikube
...

• If you dont wanna copy your certs:
  • Add insecure-skip-tls-verify: true to your cluster params:

        name: cluster_info
    insecure-skip-tls-verify: true
    server: http://<your-ip>:8001
  name: minikube

  • Delete certificate-authority, client-certificate and client-key lines from the config

5. Tell k8s where your config is

export KUBECONFIG=<config-path>

or add to your shell config (.zshrc, .bashrc etc.)

6. Use the context in k8s

kubectl config use-context minikube