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Setup minikube on Ubuntu

Prerequisites

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection
• Container or virtual machine manager, such as: Docker, Hyperkit, Hyper-V, KVM, Parallels, Podman, VirtualBox, or VMWare

Machine environment

Local environment might matter for some shell commands

• AWS EC2 instance
• OS Ubuntu 20.x
• Container - docker

Setup steps

All commands mentioned in the guide are executed inside post doing SSH into AWS EC2 ubuntu instance

1. Download and install minikube

   curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
   sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
   

2. Start minikube cluster

   minikube start
   

References

Just a couple of steps are mentioned here to show how simple it’s to start a minikube cluster. There are many commands, most of which are executed using kubectl.

Follow minikube start for details.

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