Minikube Quick Start

✍ Last Updated : September 19, 2022

🚪 Prequisite Knowledge (Optional)

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❓ Key Question / Problem / Issue

How to Setup Minikube in developer local machine

✅ Expected Output/Definition of Done

runnable minikube

Information on basic usage of minikube

🎁 Resulting Solution

Overview

Minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes

Install Docker

To install docker follow this doc https://docs.docker.com/desktop/install/windows-install/

Check Minikube Installed

Open your terminal or command prompt as Administrator

run

minikube version

result

minikube version: v1.26.0
commit: f4b412861bb746be73053c9f6d2895f12cf78565

Install Minikube

Download minikube installer here, using the installer will also add the binary to your PATH

Start Cluster

This will start a new cluster with the profile name "agones" and Kubernetes version 1.22.12

run

minikube start -p agones --kubernetes-version v1.22.12 --driver=hyperv --cpus 2 --memory 3.5GB --addons metrics-server

result

��  [agones] minikube v1.26.0 on Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19042 Build 19042
✨  Using the hyperv driver based on user configuration
��  Starting control plane node agones in cluster agones
��  Creating hyperv VM (CPUs=2, Memory=3584MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.22.12 on Docker 20.10.16 ...
    ▪ Generating certificates and keys ...
    ▪ Booting up control plane ...
    ▪ Configuring RBAC rules ...
🔎  Verifying Kubernetes components...
    ▪ Using image k8s.gcr.io/metrics-server/metrics-server:v0.6.1
    ▪ Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
🌟  Enabled addons: storage-provisioner, metrics-server, default-storageclass

❗  C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin\kubectl.exe is version 1.24.2, which may have incompatibilites with Kubernetes 1.22.12.
    ▪ Want kubectl v1.22.12? Try 'minikube kubectl -- get pods -A'
🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "agones" cluster and "default" namespace by default

and that’s it your Kubernetes cluster is now running

Stop Cluster

run

minikube stop -p agones

result

✋  Stopping node "agones"  ...
🛑  Powering off "agones" via SSH ...
🛑  1 node stopped.

Delete Cluster

run

minikube delete -p agones

result

✋  Stopping node "agones"  ...
🔥  Deleting "agones" in hyperv ...
💀  Removed all traces of the "agones" cluster.

Start Minikube Dashboard

Minikube has integrated support for the Kubernetes Dashboard UI

This will enable the dashboard add-on, and open the proxy in the default web browser

run

minikube -p agones dashboard

result

🔌  Enabling dashboard ...
    ▪ Using image kubernetesui/dashboard:v2.6.0
    ▪ Using image kubernetesui/metrics-scraper:v1.0.8
🤔  Verifying dashboard health ...
🚀  Launching proxy ...
🤔  Verifying proxy health ...
🎉  Opening http://127.0.0.1:64262/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/ in your default browser...