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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Backlinks

• Kubernetes (public)