Minikube: easily run Kubernetes locally (opens in new tab)

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39 pointsa-robinson9y ago15 comments

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Minikube is awesome! We used it at Apprenda in a recent K8s 101 webinar (0). Standing up a local K8s cluster in 1-2 minutes is a really great experience.

(0): https://apprenda.wistia.com/medias/ckbmoa10sd

rajeevsingh9y ago

Great webinar! Kudos!

I set this up on my laptop and am noticing a strange behavior. When accessing the pod via http://192.168.99.100:30764/grid?cols=3&rows=5, all pods display the same ID. This means that the "NodePort" load-balancer is not performing round-robin load-balancing as expected. Any thoughts?

My environment: Macbook Pro, Intel i7, 16GB OS X (El Capitan 10.11.5) Docker for Mac (v1.12.0-rc3 client and server versions, https://www.docker.com/products/docker#/mac) kubectl v1.3.0 minikube v0.6.0

rajeevsingh9y ago

Nevermind. The root-cause seems to be aggressive browser caching.

Chrome and Safari display the same behavior i.e. all pod IDs the same.

Firefox displays different pod IDs (90% of the IDS are the same, however there are a few that are different)

TheIronYuppie9y ago

Starting Minikube on your laptop (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube):

   minikube start

Seriously, it's that easy. Let me know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I am a PM at Google working on Kubernetes.

sofaofthedamned9y ago

There's a bit more to it - it took me a while to realise that I still needed kubectl and the rest of the binaries on the host. I have had a heavy day though so may just have missed that bit.

Love Kubernetes though, this'll be a superb way of spinning some test stuff up!

dlor9y ago

Yeah, we're looking into packaging kubectl into an installer with minikube.

TheIronYuppie9y ago

Heh, that's true - you can't run binaries that aren't there :)

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dlor9y ago

I'm an engineer working on Minikube. Feel free to ask about the tool here!

mobiuscog9y ago

When will there be a windows version ?

tupilaq9y ago

I've used kid (https://github.com/vyshane/kid) to launch a docker based kubernetes environment on my laptop.

Means I don't have to use VirtualBox

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josephjacks9y ago

Minikube is awesome! We used it at Apprenda in a recent K8s 101 webinar (0). Standing up a local K8s cluster in 1-2 minutes is a really great experience.

(0): https://apprenda.wistia.com/medias/ckbmoa10sd

rajeevsingh9y ago

Great webinar! Kudos!

rajeevsingh9y ago

Nevermind. The root-cause seems to be aggressive browser caching.

Chrome and Safari display the same behavior i.e. all pod IDs the same.

Firefox displays different pod IDs (90% of the IDS are the same, however there are a few that are different)

TheIronYuppie9y ago

Starting Minikube on your laptop (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube):

   minikube start

Seriously, it's that easy. Let me know if you have any questions!

Disclosure: I am a PM at Google working on Kubernetes.

sofaofthedamned9y ago

There's a bit more to it - it took me a while to realise that I still needed kubectl and the rest of the binaries on the host. I have had a heavy day though so may just have missed that bit.

Love Kubernetes though, this'll be a superb way of spinning some test stuff up!

dlor9y ago

Yeah, we're looking into packaging kubectl into an installer with minikube.

TheIronYuppie9y ago

Heh, that's true - you can't run binaries that aren't there :)

1 more reply

dlor9y ago

I'm an engineer working on Minikube. Feel free to ask about the tool here!

mobiuscog9y ago

When will there be a windows version ?

tupilaq9y ago

I've used kid (https://github.com/vyshane/kid) to launch a docker based kubernetes environment on my laptop.

Means I don't have to use VirtualBox

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse