Minikube lets you simulate a cluster using virtualbox locally. It can be used to test and debug locally instead of the cloud.
These prerequisites that are required to run minikube are
- Docker
- kubectl
- virtualbox
- blackbox
- helm
Instructions available OSX and Ubuntu.
The following instructions assume you have homebrew installed.
brew cask install docker
brew cask install virtualbox
brew install kubectl
brew install blackbox
brew install kubernetes-helm
brew cask install minikube
Alternatively you can manually install from github.com/kubernetes/minikube.
Note: If you're installing virtualbox onto linux running in virtualbox, it may complain that your processor doesn't have VT-x/AMD-V enabled. I'm sure there's a fix if your processor does indeed support it but it is not documented here.
Note: Running VMs on VMs is tricky in general. These instructions should work but are not tested on a bare metal linux machine. Minikube is meant to be a local testing environment.
sudo apt install -y virtualbox
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 /usr/local/bin/kubectl
git clone https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox.git
cd blackbox
make manual-install
This is version 17, you may want to check to see if there is a newer version here. If there is, please update this document.
curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.17.1/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
To get some visibility on the actual images and containers running in minikube you can use eval $(minikube docker-env) after starting minikube. This will redirect the docker daemon to the one running in minikube. Once this is done all docker commands run will act on the install of docker running in minikube.