minikube_installation.md

Pre-requisites

• Ubuntu OS
• sudo privileges
• t2.medium Instance type (or higher)

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y curl wget apt-transport-https
sudo apt install docker.io -y
sudo systemctl enable --now docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER && newgrp docker

Install Minikube

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
chmod +x minikube
sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/

Install Kubectl

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

Minikube commands

minikube start --driver=docker
minikube status
minikube stop
minikube delete

Verify

kubectl get nodes
kubectl run hello-world-pod --image=nginx
kubectl get pods