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Getting Started🔗

For learning purpose we are using minikube to mimic single cluster on our local system. feel free to use kind or k3s For development purpose. and testing things out on local system

installation of minikube🔗

if you're on arch linux you can directly fire command sudo pacman -S minikube if not you do following. 

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube && rm minikube-linux-amd64

Setting Up →

We will need docker or podman with minkube in order to run it. Although podman is supported it has experimental driver so i suggest we use docker for smoother transition and some less errors. When using docker there is not need to use hypervisor. lets start with configuration

minikube start --driver=docker

minikube config set driver docker
minikube start

either of command will be fine. if you use docker only then i suggest you use minikube config to set docker driver as always.

  • Check the minikube node ip using minikube IP. Or you can ssh into it using minikube ssh ← this will take you into minikube node
  • Fire minikube status to check running status
  • Hit docker ps after minikube ssh to check running containers and all services running in control plane

Note

minikube only create one node and it behaves as master and worker node

Note

For our convinience we will set shortcut to minikube as mk 1. open .zshrc or .bashrc in your favourite editor 2. type alias mk="minikube"