minikube

minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. minikube's primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit.

Features

minikube runs the latest stable release of Kubernetes, with support for standard Kubernetes features like:

• LoadBalancer - using minikube tunnel
• Multi-cluster - using minikube start -p <name>
• NodePorts - using minikube service
• Persistent Volumes
• Ingress
• Dashboard - minikube dashboard
• Container runtimes - minikube start --container-runtime
• Configure apiserver and kubelet options via command-line flags

As well as developer-friendly features:

• Addons - a marketplace for developers to share configurations for running services on minikube
• NVIDIA GPU support - for machine learning
• Filesystem mounts

For more information, see the official minikube website

Installation

See the Getting Started Guide

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Documentation

See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/

More Examples

See minikube in action here

Community

minikube is a Kubernetes #sig-cluster-lifecycle project.

• #minikube on Kubernetes Slack - Live chat with minikube developers!

• minikube-users mailing list

• minikube-dev mailing list

• Contributing

• Development Roadmap

Join our meetings:

• Bi-weekly office hours, Mondays @ 11am PST
• Triage Party