Minikube
minikube offers an easy means of spinning up a single-node Kubernetes cluster. It supports a range of providers, and uses kubeadm
to provision the cluster.
Drivers
The cluster can be started either as a container or virtual machine, or run directly on the host. The driver used is selected with the --driver
switch to minikube start
.
- On Linux, directly on the host with no hypervisor (Private) (allowing privileged containers to perform operations directly on the host machine, so use with caution!).
- Docker (Private)
- HyperKit (Private)
- Hyper-V (Private)
- KVM (Private)
- Parallels (Private)
- Podman (Private)
- VirtualBox (Private)
- VMware (Private) Fusion and Unified Driver
Container runtimes
- Docker (Private) (default)
- containerd (Private)
- CRI-O
Usage
minikube start
minikube stop
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