Deploying Kubernetes using Minikube

Minikube is still in development; it is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally, optimized for the underlying OS (MAC/Linux). It runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM. Minikube helps developers to learn Kubernetes and do day-to-day development and testing with ease.

The following setup will cover Minikube setup on Mac OS X, as very few guides are present to deploy Kubernetes on Mac:

1. Download the Minikube binary:

           $ curl -Lo minikube 
   https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.12.2/minikube-darwin-amd64
           % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
    Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
           100 79.7M 100 79.7M 0 0 1857k 0 0:00:43 0:00:43 --:--:-- 1863k
   

2. Grant execute permission to the binary:

   $ chmod +x minikube 
   
   

3. Move the Minikube binary to /usr/local/bin so that it gets added to the path and can be executed directly on the terminal:

           $ sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin
   

4. After this...