Minikube - A local single-node Kubernetes cluster

Requires a Type-2 hypervisor installed on workstation. Minikube creates a single VM which then hosts a single-node Kubernetes cluster<bre> With the --vm-driver=none option the components are run on the host, this requires a docker installation
VR-x/AMD-v must be enabled in BIOS on workstation.
Internet connection is required to pull packages, etc
Installing Minikube on Linux, we will choose Ubuntu Linux 18.04 LTS
Install VirtualBox

$ sudo bash -c 'echo "deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install -y virtualbox-6.0

Install Minikube

$ curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64\
 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/

Start Minikube

$ minikube start

Check the status

minikube status

Stop minikube

$ minikube stop

Start Minikube with CRI-O as container runtime, instead of Docker, with the following command:

minikube start --container-runtime=cri-o

Let's login via ssh into the Minikube's VM:

$ minikube ssh
 
$ sudo docker container ls
 
$ sudo runc list

Install kubectl on Linux (latest version)

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s \
https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl\
 && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

$ kubectl config view
$ kubectl cluster-info
$ kubectl cluster-info dump