installing_minukube.md

Table of contents

• General info
• Setup

General info

Minikube provides an easy way to spin up a single node Kubernetes cluster on a local machine. From https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/: #What you’ll need

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection
• Container or virtual machine manager, such as: Docker, QEMU, Hyperkit, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels, Podman, VirtualBox, or VMware Fusion/Workstation

Setup

1. Download the installer from https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-installer.exe

2. Start minikube and override the default cpu and memory. I recommend the below as minimum

minikube start --memory=6144 cpus=8

3. Create a dev namespace to align with Openshift. Switch context to the namespace

kubectl create -f minikube\adminnamespace-dev.yaml
kubectl config set-context --current --namespace=a1b9b0-dev

4. Check namespace in current context

kubectl config view --minify -o jsonpath='{..namespace}'

'a1b9b0-dev'

5. To view all resources in a gui, kick off the minikube dashboard

minikube dashboard