Minikube is a free and open source tool by the Kubernetes team that enables you to easily run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally. Without Minikube, you'd have to install and configure kubectl and kubeadm (used for provisioning) yourself.
So, let's install Minikube by following the instructions found at https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases. For Ubuntu, we can choose to either run the install script or install the .deb package.
At the time of writing this book, the .deb package installation is still experimental, so we will opt for the install script instead. For example, to install Minikube v0.27.0, we can run the following:
$ curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.27.0/minikube-linux-amd64 ...
