K8S installation on local windows machine

Minimum requirements :-

• 2 CPUs or more
• 2GB of free memory
• 20GB of free disk space
• Internet connection
• VirtualBox

Install minikube from the following url

👉 https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-installer.exe

Double click on installed file to start installation

👉 Accept the security warning

👉 Click on ok

👉 Click on next

👉 Click on I Agree

👉(Important) Keep a note of the destination folder

C:\Program Files\Kubernetes\Minikube

👉 Click on Next

👉Click on Finish

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Open the cmd or powershell in administrator mode

Now go to the installation folder that you were asked to keep note of it

👉 cd C:\Program Files\Kubernetes\Minikube

Make the virtualbox as default driver

👉 minikube config set driver virtualbox

Now start the minikube for further configuration -

👉 minikube start — driver=virtualbox

This will take time as per available internet speed so, sit and have a tea or coffee or have a light walk ☕☕😊

If everything goes fine you will see this

A new VM will be created inside VirtualBox

Download the following client program on same location -

👉curl -LO “https://dl.k8s.io/release/v1.22.0/bin/windows/amd64/kubectl.exe"

Kubectl.exe will get installed to the current folder

Test the installation -

👉 kubectl get pods

Setting the class path for the Minikube folder

Copy the location

Search for Environment Variables in your start menu

👉 Click on Path

👉 Click on New and paste the copied address

C:\Program Files\Kubernetes\Minikube

Click on OK

Click on OK

Now close the cmd prompt and then open it again

normally

👉 kubectl get pods

To stop the cluster use

👉 minikube stop

For more insights refer official documentation

https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/

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