Introduction to Minikube

Minikube is a tool that creates a single node Kubernetes cluster in VirtualBox or Hyper-V (other hypervisors are supported) ready to be used during development of a containerized application. We have shown in Chapter 2, Setting up a Working Environment, how Minikube and with it the tool  kubectl can be installed on your Mac or Windows laptop. As stated, Minikube is a single node Kubernetes cluster and thus the node is, at the same time, a Kubernetes master as well as a worker node.

Let's make sure that Minikube is running with the following command:

$ minikube start

Once Minikube is ready, we can access its single node cluster using kubectl. And we should see something similar to the following screenshot:

Listing all nodes in Minikube

As mentioned before, we have a single node cluster with a node called minikube ...