Deploying Kubernetes using Minikube

Minikube is still in development; it is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally, optimized for the underlying OS (MAC/Linux). It runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM. Minikube helps developers to learn Kubernetes and do day-to-day development and testing with ease.

The following setup will cover Minikube setup on Mac OS X, as very few guides are present to deploy Kubernetes on Mac:

  1. Download the Minikube binary:
            $ curl -Lo minikube 
https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.12.2/minikube-darwin-amd64
        % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
        100 79.7M 100 79.7M 0 0 1857k 0 0:00:43 0:00:43 --:--:-- 1863k
  2. Grant execute ...

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