Getting started

Local Utilities

Minikube

Minikube is a tool for running Kubernetes locally, which can be useful as a sandbox, and for testing and learning Kubernetes.

Minikube requires a hypervisor (Virtual Machine Manager) to function. If you do not already have one, VirtualBox is a popular option. On Ubuntu-based linux distributions, you can install VirtualBox with

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

(more help and other platforms) and on any Linux distribution, you can install Minikube with

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.22.3/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/

(more help and other platforms)

Kubectl

Kubectl is a command-line interface for managing Kuberenetes clusters. Kubectl can be installed on Linux with the following commands:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

See here for more help and other options.