Kubernetes Setup

1 min read · virtualization kubernetes minikube docker

Install minikube

Set up a practice environment with minikube, using either Docker or VirtualBox.

  1. Install the driver (VirtualBox is a good choice).
  2. Install minikube.
    • Debian requires manual installation.1
  3. Check it works.

The installation takes a long time.

1#  driver=docker
2driver=virtualbox
3minikube start --driver=${driver}

Check minikube

Check it's all running:

1minikube kubectl -- get po -A

1NAMESPACE     NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS      AGE
2kube-system   coredns-674b8bbfcf-l7582           1/1     Running   0             2m
3kube-system   etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0             2m
4kube-system   kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0             2m
5kube-system   kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0             2m
6kube-system   kube-proxy-4q977                   1/1     Running   0             2m
7kube-system   kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0             2m
8kube-system   storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   1 (2m ago)    2m

Uninstall minikube

1du -sh ~/.minikube

Minikube is huge!

1minikube stop
2rm -rf ~/.minikube

  1. https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/ ↩︎