Minikube Install

calendar May 1, 2024 · 2 min read · k8s  ·
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This guide installs minikube on ubuntu.

Installing minikube

  • I am basing this on minikube start page
  • prerequisites:
    • Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS, running as a VirtualBox VM
    • My Ubuntu VM has 5 CPUs (only need 2)
    • My Ubuntu VM has 22812mb (I only need 2G)
    • My Ubuntu VM has 497GB of free disk space (only need 20G)
    • I have docker installed
  • So, click on the linux button in the page, to make sure you get the correct version.
  • I am running the displayed commands:
 1osboxes@osboxes:~$ mkdir yuvinst
 2osboxes@osboxes:~$ cd yuvinst/
 3osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ 
 4osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64 
 5  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
 6                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
 7100 91.2M  100 91.2M    0     0  20.3M      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 20.3M
 8osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ 
 9osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ ls -l
10total 93396
11-rw-rw-r-- 1 osboxes osboxes 95637096 May  1 04:34 minikube-linux-amd64
12osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$
  • As you can see, this has downloaded a single file. This is actually the whole program.
  • now for the installaion:
1osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube && rm minikube-linux-amd64 
2[sudo] password for osboxes: 
3osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ 
4osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$ ls
5osboxes@osboxes:~/yuvinst$
  • As you can see, install is just a fancy copy command, so the file was moved to its place.
  • I can now launch a cluster with the minikube start command.
    I'd make sure I install kubectl before that.