Working with minishift

working-with-minishift.md

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If on Fedora, RHEL one should use centos iso to make pushing to registry work

$ minishift start --iso-url centos

(can this be configured in a minishift profile to be used?)

Use docker deamon from minishift

$ eval $(minishift docker-env)

Use oc from minishift

$ eval $(minishift oc-env)

Log in to minishift cluster

$ oc config use-context minishift # to make oc use minishift context
$ oc login -u developer
<password is anything you want>

Login as administrator

$ oc login -u system:admin

Open the web console (in the default browser)

$ minishift console

Viewing images on host

$ minishift image list

View images in the VM

$ minishift image list --vm

Avoid switching to system:admin for operations which require this

$ oc <action> --as system:admin <object>

Export images from minishift to the host

This is especially handy when one has to delete and start minishift a lot. Images can be exported, so that they don't have to be rebuilt again in the new environment.

$ minishift image list --vm # to see images in minishift
$ minishift image export <image> # to export and image
$ minishift image list # to see images exported to the host
$ minishift image import <image> # to import an image back to minishift

Login to minishift Docker registry

$ docker login -u developer -p $(oc whoami -t) $(minishift openshift registry)