The latest articles on DEV Community by Senior Web & Mobile Developer (@acodewizard). https://dev.to/acodewizard https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F241796%2F629042cd-6707-4ccb-960c-388c7eacb057.png https://dev.to/acodewizard en Senior Web & Mobile Developer Sun, 12 Jun 2022 05:47:11 +0000 https://dev.to/acodewizard/start-kubernetes-on-windows-from-minikube-with-vmware-1fc4 https://dev.to/acodewizard/start-kubernetes-on-windows-from-minikube-with-vmware-1fc4 <p>Hi, I think you've already read how to setting up kubernetes on Windows with Minikube from here:<br> <a href="https://dev.to/harshadranganathan/setting-up-kubernetes-on-windows-with-minikube-2pp6">https://dev.to/harshadranganathan/setting-up-kubernetes-on-windows-with-minikube-2pp6</a></p> <p>Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your laptop for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it day-to-day.</p> <p>When I installed VMware on my local system, it worked a little different, so I'd like to describe my little experience.</p> <p>I experienced these kubernetes and minikube in Ubuntu 20.04, and I am going to describe in compare to Linux.</p> <p>Let's start from installing Chocolatey.</p> <h2> Install Chocolatey </h2> <p>Chocolatey is a package manager for Windows similar to apt install in MacOS. It simplifies our installation process so we will use it here.</p> <p>Open PowerShell as an administrator and run below commands.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>Get-ExecutionPolicy Set-ExecutionPolicy AllSigned iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1')) </code></pre> </div> <h2> Install Minikube </h2> <p>After chocolately is installed, run below command to install Minikube.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>choco install minikube </code></pre> </div> <blockquote> <p>@Harshad described above V0.27 have an issue with shutdown, I had not experienced yet...</p> </blockquote> <h2> Install VMware driver </h2> <p>If you are going to use VMWare as the driver for Minikube, then run below command. If you installed VMWare software already, skip it.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>choco install virtualbox -y </code></pre> </div> <h2> Start Minikube </h2> <p>Open PowerShell as an administrator and run this command.<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>minikube start </code></pre> </div> <p>Then Minikube will follow steps in below:</p> <ul> <li>Downloads MinikubeISO and places it in .minikube folder in your user directory(E.g. C:/users/[username]/.minikube)</li> <li>Connects to VMware and runs a minikube virtual machine</li> <li>Downloads the necessary files and moves them to the cluster</li> <li>Runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside the VM</li> </ul> <h2> Check minikube status </h2> <p>To check if minikube is running use below command<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>minikube status </code></pre> </div> <p>Output is below</p> <p><code>minikube: Running<br> cluster: Running<br> kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at</code></p> <p>Run below command to access the Kubernetes dashboard:<br> </p> <div class="highlight js-code-highlight"> <pre class="highlight plaintext"><code>minikube dashboard </code></pre> </div> minikube kubernetes windows vmware