Preparing a local Kubernetes environment with Minikube

Helm won't be able to deploy applications without access to a Kubernetes cluster. For this reason, let's discuss one option that users can follow to run their own cluster on their machine—Minikube.

Minikube is a community-driven tool that allows users to easily deploy a small, single-node Kubernetes cluster to their local machine. A cluster created with Minikube is created inside a virtual machine (VM), so it can be created and later discarded in a way that is isolated from the host operating system that the VM is running on. Minikube presents an excellent way to experiment with Kubernetes and it can also be used to learn how to use Helm alongside the examples provided throughout this book.

In the next few sections, we'll cover how Minikube can be installed and configured so that you have a Kubernetes cluster available while learning how to use Helm. For more comprehensive instructions, please refer...