get a minikube environment to play

minikube.helm.sh

#hypervisor requirements ...
# --vm-driver=none if docker is installed might be enough

#kubectl
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl ~/cloud-stuff/utils/

#minikube
curl -Lo minikube https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/download/$(curl -s "https://api.github.com/repos/kubernetes/minikube/releases/latest" | grep -Po '"tag_name": "\K.*?(?=")')/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube-linux-amd64 && sudo mv minikube-linux-amd64 ~/cloud-stuff/utils/minikube

#launch
minikube start

#look around
kubectl get nodes

minikube ip

kubectl cluster-info

#install helm
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubernetes/helm/master/scripts/get > get_helm.sh
chmod 700 get_helm.sh
./get_helm.sh

#initialize helm, tiller
helm init
helm repo update
helm ls