Installing Kubernetes (Minikube and KinD)

Now, let’s move on and install Kubernetes for your development environment. We will begin with Minikube to get you started quickly and then look into KinD. We will then use KinD for the rest of this chapter.

Installing Minikube

We will install Minikube in the same Linux machine we used to install Docker in Chapter 3, Containerization with Docker. So, if you haven’t done that, please go to Chapter 3, Containerization with Docker, and follow the instructions provided to set up Docker on your machine.

First, we will install kubectl. As described previously, kubectl is the command-line utility that interacts with the Kubernetes API server. We will use kubectl multiple times in this book.

To download the latest release of kubectl, run the following command:

$ curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release\
/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)\
/bin...