Download the latest minikube stable release on x86-64 Linux
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_amd64.deb
mspuser::~/environment/app (master) $ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_amd64.deb
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 23.2M 100 23.2M 0 0 22.4M 0 0:00:01 0:00:01 --:--:-- 22.4M
mspuser::~/environment/app (master) $
Install Downloaded file using Debian package
sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_amd64.deb
mspuser::~/environment/app (master) $ sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_amd64.deb
Selecting previously unselected package minikube.
(Reading database ... 77268 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack minikube_latest_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking minikube (1.25.2-0) ...
Setting up minikube (1.25.2-0) ...
mspuser::~/environment/app (master) $
Check minikube requirements
| Parts | Requirements | Command |
|---|---|---|
| CPU | 2 CPUs or more | nproc |
| MEMORY | 2GB of free memory | free -h |
| DISK | 20GB of free disk space | df -h |
nproc
free -h
df -h
mspuser::~/environment $ nproc
4
mspuser::~/environment $ free -h
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15G 1.1G 9.4G 11M 5.0G 14G
Swap: 488M 0B 488M
mspuser:~/environment $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 473M 0 473M 0% /dev
tmpfs 98M 812K 97M 1% /run
/dev/xvda1 9.7G 7.9G 1.8G 82% /
tmpfs 488M 0 488M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 488M 0 488M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 26M 26M 0 100% /snap/amazon-ssm-agent/5656
/dev/loop1 45M 45M 0 100% /snap/snapd/15904
/dev/loop2 56M 56M 0 100% /snap/core18/2409
tmpfs 98M 0 98M 0% /run/user/1000
/dev/loop3 47M 47M 0 100% /snap/snapd/16010
mspuser:~/environment $
Start minikube cluster
minikube start
mspuser:~/environment $ minikube start
* minikube v1.25.2 on Ubuntu 18.04
* Automatically selected the docker driver. Other choices: none, ssh
* Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
* Pulling base image ...
* Downloading Kubernetes v1.23.3 preload ...
> preloaded-images-k8s-v17-v1...: 505.68 MiB / 505.68 MiB 100.00% 159.83 M
> gcr.io/k8s-minikube/kicbase: 379.06 MiB / 379.06 MiB 100.00% 36.51 MiB p
* Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=3900MB) ...
* Preparing Kubernetes v1.23.3 on Docker 20.10.12 ...
- kubelet.housekeeping-interval=5m
- Generating certificates and keys ...
- Booting up control plane ...
- Configuring RBAC rules ...
* Verifying Kubernetes components...
- Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
* Enabled addons: default-storageclass, storage-provisioner
* kubectl not found. If you need it, try: 'minikube kubectl -- get pods -A'
* Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default
mspuser:~/environment $