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minikube implements a local Kubernetes cluster on macOS, Linux, and Windows. minikube's primary goals are to be the best tool for local Kubernetes application development and to support all Kubernetes features that fit.

Features

minikube runs the latest stable release of Kubernetes, with support for standard Kubernetes features like:

• LoadBalancer - using minikube tunnel
• Multi-cluster - using minikube start -p
• NodePorts - using minikube service
• Persistent Volumes
• Dashboard - minikube dashboard
• Container runtimes - minikube start --container-runtime
• Configure apiserver and kubelet options via command-line flags
• Supports common CI environments

As well as developer-friendly features:

• Addons - a marketplace for developers to share configurations for running services on minikube
• NVIDIA GPU support - for machine learning
• AMD GPU support - for machine learning
• Filesystem mounts

For more information, see the official minikube website

Installation

See the Getting Started Guide

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GitHub Codespace

You can run minikube in a GitHub Codespace by clicking here:

This will launch a Github Codespace. You can then run minikube start and minikube dashboard - You can then open Minikube Dashboard by clicking opening the link displayed in the terminal.

You can also run Minikube in a Dev Container locally using your favorite IDE, for more information see Dev Containers

Documentation

See

More Examples

See minikube in action in the controls handbook

Governance

Kubernetes project is governed by a framework of principles, values, policies and processes to help our community and constituents towards our shared goals.

The Kubernetes Community is the launching point for learning about how we organize ourselves.

The Kubernetes Steering community repo is used by the Kubernetes Steering Committee, which oversees governance of the Kubernetes project.

Community

minikube is a Kubernetes #sig-cluster-lifecycle project.

• #minikube on Kubernetes Slack - Live chat with minikube developers!
• minikube-users mailing list
• minikube-dev mailing list

• Contributing
• Development Roadmap

Join our community meetings:

• Bi-weekly office hours, Mondays @ 11am PST
• Triage Party