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Principles of Minikube

The primary goal of minikube is to make it simple to run Kubernetes on your local machine, both for getting started and day-to-day development workflows.

Here are some specific features that align with our goal:

  • Single command setup and teardown UX.
  • Support most portable Kubernetes core features (local storage, networking, auto-scaling, loadbalancing, etc.)
  • Unified UX across OSes.
  • Minimal dependencies on third party software.
  • Minimal resource overhead.
  • Becoming the default local-cluster setup for Kubernetes

Non-Goals

  • Simplifying Kubernetes production deployment experience. Kube-deploy is attempting to tackle this problem.

  • Supporting all possible deployment configurations of Kubernetes like various types of storage, networking, etc.

Priorities

This section contains the overall priorities of the minikube project, in rough order.

  • Setting up a well-tested, secure and complete Kubernetes cluster locally.
  • Cross Platform support (macOS, Linux, Windows)
  • Supporting existing Kubernetes features:
    • Load Balancer support.
    • Persistent disks.
  • Keeping up with new Kubernetes releases and features.
  • Development-focused features like:
    • Mounting host directories.
    • VPN/proxy networking.
  • Native hypervisor integration.
  • Support for alternative Kubernetes runtimes, like rkt.