Steps Installing Minikube on Linux

Step 1: Install the hypervisor (VirtualBox)

sai-HP ~ # apt-get install virtualbox

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree      

Reading state information... Done

The following extra packages will be installed:

  libgsoap4 libvncserver0 virtualbox-dkms

Suggested packages:

  libvncserver0-dbg vde2 virtualbox-guest-additions-iso

Recommended packages:

  virtualbox-qt

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  libgsoap4 libvncserver0 virtualbox virtualbox-dkms

0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 609 not upgraded.

Need to get 14.7 MB of archives.

After this operation, 63.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y

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step2 : 

sai-HP ~ # apt-get update
Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg                                   
Hit http://dl.google.com stable Release   

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step3 : Install minikube

sai-HP ~ # curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.20.0/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 78.7M  100 78.7M    0     0  5308k      0  0:00:15  0:00:15 --:--:-- 6105k

                                          

step4 : Start minikube
 

sai-HP ~ # minikube start
There is a newer version of minikube available (v0.21.0).  Download it here:
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/tag/v0.21.0

To disable this notification, run the following:
minikube config set WantUpdateNotification false
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kubectl could not be found on your path. kubectl is a requirement for using minikube
To install kubectl, please run the following:

curl -Lo kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.4/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

To disable this message, run the following:

minikube config set WantKubectlDownloadMsg false
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Starting local Kubernetes v1.6.4 cluster...
Starting VM...
Downloading Minikube ISO
 90.95 MB / 90.95 MB [==============================================] 100.00% 0s
Moving files into cluster...
Setting up certs...
Starting cluster components...
Connecting to cluster...
Setting up kubeconfig...
Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.

sai-HP ~ # 

step5 : Check the status

sai-HP ~ # minikube status
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kubectl could not be found on your path. kubectl is a requirement for using minikube
To install kubectl, please run the following:

curl -Lo kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.4/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

To disable this message, run the following:

minikube config set WantKubectlDownloadMsg false
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minikube: Running
localkube: Running
kubectl: Correctly Configured: pointing to minikube-vm at 192.168.99.100

step 6: Stop minikube

sai-HP ~ # minikube stop

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kubectl could not be found on your path. kubectl is a requirement for using minikube

To install kubectl, please run the following:

curl -Lo kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.4/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

To disable this message, run the following:

minikube config set WantKubectlDownloadMsg false

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Stopping local Kubernetes cluster...

Machine stopped.

sai-HP ~ # minikube status

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kubectl could not be found on your path. kubectl is a requirement for using minikube

To install kubectl, please run the following:

curl -Lo kubectl https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.6.4/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl && chmod +x kubectl && sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

To disable this message, run the following:

minikube config set WantKubectlDownloadMsg false

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minikube: Stopped

localkube:

kubectl:

sai-HP ~ #