Installing Minikube

Minikube is a tool that lets you run Kubernetes locally. It's ideal for development and testing environments.

Prerequisites:

  • Virtualization support (e.g., VirtualBox, Hyper-V, or Docker)
  • kubectl installed

Installation:

# macOS with Homebrew
brew install minikube

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

Start Your Cluster:

minikube start

This creates a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally.

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