Run Minikube on Docker

preface

While there are other options like Kind, K3s, MicroK8s, the Minikube is a balance of simplicity, flexibility, additionally community support makes it a great choice for many developers. What’s more ist really super simple to start with. To stat, all you need to have is installed docker engine and kubectl cli locally!

install minikube

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
## Optional
echo "alias m='/usr/local/bin/minikube '" >> ~/.bash_aliases
echo "source <(minikube completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc

start your minikube

minikube start --kubernetes-version=v1.31.0 \
--addons metrics-server --driver=docker

add more nodes

minikube node add

get basic web interface for kubernetes

minikube dashboard