Minikube

What is Minikube?

Minikube is a lightweight tool that lets you run a single-node K8s cluster locally either inside a container or a virtual machine. It’s typically used for development or learning purposes.

To interact with the Minikube cluster, you use kubectl.

How to install

See here for installation instructions.

Recipes

Start cluster

minikube start

Pause cluster

minikube pause

Unpause cluster

minikube unpause

Delete all clusters

minikube delete --all

View dashboard

minikube dashboard

minikube should launch a web page like this: