Minikube ¶

Minikube is one of the most basic and simplest way to get acquainted with Kubernetes. It creates single node cluster to experiment in matter of couple of minutes on your local machine.

Install and start the cluster ¶

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

# start
minikube start

Addons ¶

minikube addons list
minikube addons enable ingress

Caveats ¶

Basically, Minikube is best suited for testing kubernetes on local OS. If you use remote machine with CLI only, accessing services is pretty hard.
Using LoadBalancer service needs minikube tunnel command and it only creates a temporary load balancer.
You will not get external IP even if you use service of type NodePort.

Delete the cluster ¶

minikube stop
# If you want delete all the pods and services permanently, then...
minikube delete