Installing a single-node cluster with Minikube

In this section, we are going to learn how to install a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. It's probably the easiest way to get a working Kubernetes installation locally. By the end of this section, you're going to have a working single-node Kubernetes installation on your local machine.

Minikube is easy to use and completely free. It's going to install all of the Kubernetes components on your local machine and configure all of them. Uninstalling all of the components through Minikube is easy too, so you won't be stuck with it if, one day, you want to destroy your local cluster.

Minikube has one big advantage: it's a super useful tool in which to test Kubernetes scenarios quickly. However, its major drawback is that it prevents you from running a multi-node Kubernetes cluster and, therefore, all of the multi-node scenarios we will discuss later won't be testable for you. That being said, if you...