How to install minikube on ubuntu

Install minikube on ubuntu is very easy. We will walk through the necessary steps to install minikube on ubuntu from A to Z.

Install minikube on ubuntu step 1 : 

we should update the system packages to the latest release. 

To do that we run these two commands:

• sudo apt-get update
• sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https

Install minikube on ubuntu step 2 :

Now, we need to install virtualbox hypervisor. we will get a prompt telling us to accept the virtualbox license.

sudo apt install virtualbox virtualbox-ext-pack

Install minikube on ubuntu step 3:

Now, we download the minikube binary file and we copy it to to the /usr/local/bin directory.

In order to do that, we run the following commands in order:

• wget https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
• chmod +x minikube-linux-amd64
• sudo mv minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

We add executable right to the downloaded file:

Then we move the executable file to /usr/local/bin/ in order to be in the PATH.

Next, we check if minikube was installed with success :

Install minikube on ubuntu : Step 4

We need to install the Kubernetes command line tool (kubectl) in order to manage our cluster.

Here, the cluster is composed by a single node.

In order to do that, we run this command :

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

Next, we add the exécution permission to kubectl file  using this command: chmod +x ./kubectl

Then, we move the kubectl file to the directory /usr/local/bin to be able to call it from any directory in the system.

sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

We check whether the installation of kubectl succeeded or not using the following command :

kubectl version

Install minikube on ubuntu : step 5

Now we will start minikube using this command :

minikube start

This will download the minikube iso file and launch the minikube virtual machine.

To stop a running kubernetes cluster, we run this command:

minikube stop

To delete a running kubernetes cluster, we run this command:

minikube delete

Install minikube on ubuntu : step 6

minikube has  a web dashboard that allows to manage the minikube cluster from a web interface.

To get the url of this dashboard, we run this command :

minikube dashboard --url

 This install kubernetes on ubuntu tutorial for beginners arrives at its end.

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