#030 Kubernetes - Minikube

Introduction

this is part 30 from the journey it's a long journey(360 day) so go please check previous parts , and if you need to walk in the journey with me please make sure to follow because I may post more than once in 1 Day but surely I will post daily at least one 😍.

And I will cover lot of tools as we move on.

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What is Minikube

Minikube is like an virtual machine contain a Linux operation system and have 1 node as master also in same time as worker.
and you can communicate with it using kubctl using a configuration file.

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Install on Linux

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 \
  && chmod +x minikube

sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/bin/
sudo install minikube /usr/local/bin/

this commands will install minikube on Linux , also we need to install kubctl

Download latest version

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

then make it excutable

chmod +x ./kubectl

move the excutable to bin so we can access it directly from terminal

sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

to make sure that installation successful

kubectl version --client

for other platforms check minikube and kubectl

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Start the action

first we need to start minikube

minikube start --driver=virtualbox

I am using driver virtualbox because I got some problem with driver docker , and lazy to fix them.

after successfully starting it. We can see that a cluster have been made , to see it type

cat ~/.kube/config

for windows users , it's in c>Users>your_username>.kube>config

We can see we have a cluster with name minikube , and user with name of minikube.

We can setup our own clusters in this file but we are going to do later on this journey.

kubectl get nodes

We can see that we have minikube ready and it's role is master also workder in same time.