If you want to just try the integration today try minikube https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#using-rkt-container-e...
This integration is about 90% complete and will completed going into 2017.
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minikube
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 <name>
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
📣 Please fill out our fast 5-question survey so that we can learn how & why you use minikube, and what improvements we should make. Thank you! 👯
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 https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/devcontainers/containers
Documentation
See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/
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
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
21 sourcesA few data points:
- Laptop Kubernetes, minikube, can use rkt with a single flag https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#using-rkt-container-e...
- BlaBlaCar rkt in prod and moving to Kubernetes
- Container Linux by CoreOS services like kubelet and etcd now run using rkt and download docker images from quay.io
- GKE ContainerVM is looking to use rkt for Kubelet mount management
In What Kubernetes users should know about the rkt container engineNot really. We run in a buildroot [0] based VM on your laptop so that we can run k8s components and a docker daemon cross platform (windows, osx, linux). On linux, it might be an interesting idea, but it looks like theres still an upstream issue on kubernetes to support lxc/lxd [1].
Right now, minikube supports rkt and docker. And the systemd integration of rkt is pretty nifty.
[0] https://buildroot.org/
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/6862
[2] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
In Local Django on Kubernetes with MinikubeI started and work on the minikube project as part of my full time job. It's developed completely on GitHub, and I manage two other engineers working on it full-time.
github.com/kubernetes/minikube
In Ask HN: Do you get paid to contribute to a open source project?Just to clarify two things:
- rkt can run any docker image in the vibrant ecosystem: https://coreos.com/rkt/docs/latest/running-docker-images.htm...
- Help test Kubernetes and rkt with minikube, it is working nicely today: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#using-rkt-container-e...
In Running containers without DockerMinikube: run Kubernetes locally
2 points · Open discussion> (Kubernetes is not a suitable alternative to Docker Compose, before someone suggests it.)
Why not? I have been contemplating this exact thing right before I came to procrastinate on HN.
A few of my local development workflows are using minikube[1]. Kubernetes within minikube is a lot like docker-compose. The only use case I have for docker-compose is pycharm integraion[2], but someone will probably make it work with minikube one day. There is a tool to convert from docker-compose to kubernetes[3].
1. https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
2. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/2016.1/docker-compose.html
3. https://github.com/kelseyhightower/compose2kube
In Rkt reaches 1.14.0rkt support for a local kubernetes cluster should be in the next version of minikube[0]. A PR was just merged to master today. [1] Of course, theres still a lot of work to be done.
[0] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/pull/511
disclosure: I work on minikube at google
In Rkt reaches 1.14.0Did you see https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube ?
In What I found wrong in Docker 1.12Check out minikube: github.com/kubernetes/minikube
It's a local setup to let you give Kubernetes a try. We haven't made it the default in the "give it a try" dialog yet, but we're considering it.
Disclosure: I'm an engineer at Google and I work on Minikube.
In Docker not ready for primetime"What we wanted was a platform that would work on everything from a single laptop up to a large cluster"
Minikube does this so well: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
You can really learn alot rolling your own solutions, but k8s has already solved most of the pain points including service discovery. The great thing about minikube is you can easily apply the same concepts to a thousand node cluster or just your laptop.
In Sidecar: Service Discovery for All Docker EnvironmentsIt would be good if you added an explanation of why we would want to use this to your README. Specifically, why would it be preferable to https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
In Nanokube: an all-in-one Kubernetes cluster for dev and testingI think you mean to link to the now official Minikube (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube). But yes, this is a big win for getting started and local development.
In Docker Built-In Orchestration Ready for Production: Docker 1.12 Goes GAYou might want to check out minikube.
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
Super easy way to get Kubernetes running on a single host.
In Build a Swarm clusterStarting Minikube on your laptop (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube):
minikube start
Seriously, it's that easy. Let me know if you have any questions!
Disclosure: I am a PM at Google working on Kubernetes.
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