Minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes. Minikube is a opensource tool that help for development, testing and learning without install or setup multi node Kubernetes cluster. Minikube provides a lightweight, portable solution that can quickly be set up with a single command.

System Requirements:

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection
• Container or virtual machine manager, such as: Docker, Podman, VirtualBox or Vmware.

Minikube is simplify Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster that containing only one node. Minikube is available for Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, RedHat Linux and Windows System.

Installation Steps Kubernetes Minikube in Ubuntu and Redhat Linux

Step1: Setup Linux OS for Kubernetes Minikube

• A server running on one of the following operating systems: Ubuntu, RedHat Linux or any other Debian-based distribution or RPM-based Distribution like Roky, Amazon Linux or CentOs.
• We need fresh Operating Setup with Linux to prevent any other unexpected issues.

Step2: Install a Docker in Linux OS

• we required docker for setup Minikube in a Linux Machine.

# apt-get update
# apt install -y curl wget apt-transport-https
# apt install docker.io -y

⦁ After Installation start docker service

# systemctl start docker
# systemctl enable docker
# systemctl status docker

Step 3: Install Kubectl Command in your Linux Machine

# apt-get update
# apt-get install -y apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg
# mkdir -p -m 755 /etc/apt/keyrings
# curl -fsSL https://pkgs.k8s.io/core:/stable:/v1.31/deb/Release.key | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/kubernetes-apt-keyring.gpg
# chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/kubernetes-apt-keyring.gpg
#echo 'deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/kubernetes-apt-keyring.gpg] https://pkgs.k8s.io/core:/stable:/v1.31/deb/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
# sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list
# sudo apt-get update
# sudo apt-get install -y kubectl
# kubectl version --client

Step 4: Install Minikube In Linux server

• Install binaries in Linux machine for minikube

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

• Start your minikube cluster

# minikube start --force

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Check your cluster status