How to install minikube on Mac

Install a hypervisor & minikube and start it

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May 3, 2021

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$ brew update
$ brew install hyperkit
$ brew install minikube
$ minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit

Get status

$ kubectl get nodes
$ minikube status
$ kubectl get pod
$ kubectl get services

Create pod

Deployment > ReplicaSet > Pod is an abstraction of Container

# deploy a nginx image (blueprint for creating pods)
$ kubectl create deployment nginx-depl --image=ngnix# get deployment
$ kubectl get deployment
$ kubectl get pod
$ kubectl get pod -o wide
$ kubectl get replicaset# delete pods, deployments
$ kubectl delete deploy nginx-depl
$ kubectl delete pods --all# edit deployment
$ kubectl edit deployment nginx-depl# log
$ kubectl logs [pod-name]
$ kubectl describe pod [pod-name]# debugging - get the terminal
$ kubectl exec -it [pod-name] -- bin/bash

apply configuration file (nginx-deployment.yaml)

-- nginx-deployment.yaml fileapiVersion: apps/v1 # for versions before 1.9.0 use apps/v1beta2
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: nginx-deployment
  labels:
    app: nginxspec:
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: nginx
  replicas: 2 # tells deployment to run 1 pods matching the template
  template: # create pods using pod definition in this template
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: nginx
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: nginx
        image: nginx
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080$ kubectl apply -f nginx-deployment.yaml
$ kubectl delete -f [file name]

nginx-service.yaml

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: nginx-service
spec:
  selector:
    app: nginx
  ports:
    - protocol: TCP
      port: 80
      targetPort: 8080image: nginxports:- containerPort: 8080$ kubectl apply -f nginx-service.yaml
$ kubectl describe service nginx-service
$ kubectl get pod -o wide