Install Minikube on Mac

Minikube is a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node.

Installation guide minikube

Prerequisites

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection

Minikube ← Theory Part

To install the latest minikube stable release on x86–64 macOS using Homebrew:

brew install minikube

If you check minikube installed or not

minikube version

If you run minikube start → Your kubernetes cluster will start

vm → single node Kubernetes Cluster

Create a cluster need to virtualization platform

Virtualization platform refers to the creation of a virtual machine that acts like a real computer with an operating system. If you run this cmd

Check out the drivers

minikube start --memory=4096 --driver=hyperkit

Starting the minikube before ensure if docker is running

minikube start

Kubernetes drive default used in docker driver

kubectl already connected to kubernetes cluster

kubectl get nodes

One node is running the name of minikube

Next, Installation of pods

Create a yaml file name of pod.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
  name: nginx
spec:
  containers:
  - name: nginx
    image: nginx:1.14.2
    ports:
    - containerPort: 80

Equivalent command for docker

docker run -d nginx:1.14.2 --name nginx -p 80:80 

Create a pod

kubectl create -f pod.yml

Check the status of pod

kubectl get pods

Entire pod full details

kubectl get pods -o wide

Login to the container and execute the command

minikube ssh
curl 10.244.0.3

Pod logs check

kubectl logs nginx

The kubectl describe pods command provides detailed information about each of the pods that provide Kubernetes infrastructure.

kubectl describe pod nginx

Finally, delete the pod

kubectl delete pod nginx

Done…….