Kubernetes Minikube

1. What are the prerequisites before learning Minikube

Before studying about Minikube. You should have knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.

2. Is Minikube a virtual machine?

No, Minikube is just an open-source tool for running Kubernetes on a virtual machine.

3. What is Minikube used for?

Minikube is used to test Kubernetes on your local set up

4. Is Minikube same as Docker?

No, Minikube is an open-source tool used to run Kubernetes on a virtual machine. While Docker is used for running building and working on containers.

5. Is Minikube Open-source?

Yes, Minikube is an open-source tool under Kubernetes project.



Kubernetes Minikube

Minikube is a one-node Kubernetes cluster where master processes and work processes both run on one node. According to the official documentation of Minikube, Minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes. A prerequisite to use Minikube is a Docker container or a Virtual Machine environment. Minikube provides you a way to easily deploy application on Kubernetes for learning and developing purposes even if you don’t have enough resources like memory, CPU etc.

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Conclusion

In this article we learned about Minikube and how to use it. It is a one node Kubernetes cluster where master processes and work processes both run on a single node. Minikube is a very useful to to deploy and test Kubernetes applications locally. We learned about how to install Minikube along with Kubectl in our local machine and we created a service and deployed it using Minikube. Deploying application through Minikube is very straight forward using minikube and kubectl commands. Later we discussed some common useful Minikube commands. We hope that this article taught you about what Minikube is, how it works and how to deploy an application using Minikube. Make sure to follow other articles on GeeksforGeeks to know about more tools in DevOps....

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