Setup Instructions

Setup Instructions

Setup Minikube

Install VirtualBox

Ubuntu or Any Debian-based Linux Distribution

First download the appropriate .deb package for your distribution from the https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads[Virtual Box website]. Next, run the following commands to install Virtual Box on your system.

cd <download_directory>
sudo dpkg -i <downloaded_file>.deb

RHEL/Fedora

First download the appropriate .rpm package for your distribution from the https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads[Virtual Box website]. Next, run the following commands to install Virtual Box on your system.

sudo yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r)
cd <download_directory>
sudo rpm -i <downloaded_file>.rpm

Install kubectl

Run the following commands to download and install kubectl.

sudo mkdir /opt/kubernetes
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x kubectl
sudo mv kubectl /opt/kubernetes/
sudo ln -s /opt/kubernetes/kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Install Minikube

Download the latest Minikube release from https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases[Minikube's GitHub page]. Make sure to choose the minikube-linux-amd64 option.

chmod +x minikube-linux-amd64
sudo mv minikube-linux-amd64 /opt/kubernetes/
sudo ln -s /opt/kubernetes/minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Start the Kubernetes cluster

Run the following command to start your Kubernetes cluster.

minikube start