minikube.md

Minikube provides a local Kubernetes, designed to make it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes. The Kubernetes cluster is started either inside a virtual machine, a container or on bare-metal, depending on the minikube driver you choose.

Installing the dependencies

This quickstart assumes that you have the latest version of the minikube binary, which you can get from the minikube website.

Minikube requires a container or virtual machine manager. The Minikube documentation includes a list of suggested options in the getting started guide.

You'll also need the kubectl binary, which you can get by following the kubectl installation instructions from the Kubernetes website.

Once you have all the binaries installed, make sure everything works:

# Validate minikube
minikube version

# Validate kubectl
kubectl version

Starting the Kubernetes cluster

Start a local development cluster of Minikube that runs in a container or virtual machine manager.

minikube start --memory=4096 # 2GB default memory isn't always enough

{% include quickstarts/create-commands.md %}

Enjoy your Apache Kafka cluster, running on Minikube!

{% include quickstarts/delete-commands.md %}

{% include quickstarts/next-steps.md %}