How Minikube Sets Up a Kubernetes Cluster in Minutes

Key Takeaways

Miniube bundles all of these different components into a single image providing us a preconfigured single node Kubernetes cluster so we can get started in a matter of minutes. The whole bundle is packaged into an ISO image and is available online for download. Now you don't have to do that yourself. Mini cube provides an executable command line utility that will automatically download the ISO and deploy it in a virtualization platform such as Oracle Virtual Box or VMware Fusion. So you must have a hypervisor installed on your system. For Windows, you could use Virtual Box or HyperV. And for Linux, you could use Virtual Box or KVM. And finally to interact with the Kubernetes cluster you must have the cube cuddle kubernetes command line tool also installed on your machine. So you need three things to get this working. You must have a hypervisor installed.