Running Kubernetes Locally via Minikube

Quickstart

minikube start

Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Running pre-create checks...
Creating machine...
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...

kubectl run hello-minikube --image=k8s.gcr.io/echoserver:1.10 --port=8080

deployment.apps/hello-minikube created

kubectl expose deployment hello-minikube --type=NodePort

service/hello-minikube exposed

We have now launched an echoserver pod but we have to wait until the pod is up before curling/accessing it via the exposed service. To check whether the pod is up and running we can use the following:

kubectl get pod

NAME                              READY     STATUS              RESTARTS   AGE
hello-minikube-3383150820-vctvh   0/1       ContainerCreating   0          3s

We can see that the pod is still being created from the ContainerCreating status kubectl get pod

NAME                              READY     STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE
hello-minikube-3383150820-vctvh   1/1       Running   0          13s

We can see that the pod is now Running and we will now be able to curl it:

curl $(minikube service hello-minikube --url)

Hostname: hello-minikube-7c77b68cff-8wdzq

Pod Information:
	-no pod information available-

Server values:
	server_version=nginx: 1.13.3 - lua: 10008

Request Information:
	client_address=172.17.0.1
	method=GET
	real path=/
	query=
	request_version=1.1
	request_scheme=http
	request_uri=http://192.168.99.100:8080/

Request Headers:
	accept=*/*
	host=192.168.99.100:30674
	user-agent=curl/7.47.0

Request Body:
	-no body in request-

kubectl delete services hello-minikube

service "hello-minikube" deleted

kubectl delete deployment hello-minikube

deployment.extensions "hello-minikube" deleted

minikube stop

Stopping local Kubernetes cluster...
Stopping "minikube"...