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kubernetes / minikube

minikube

Run Kubernetes locally

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Run Kubernetes locally

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Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 4:00:59 PM UTC.

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HN mentions by year50 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-06-20 19:58:12 UTC to 2022-06-23 06:20:02 UTC.

051015202016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 21 mentions; 1 submissions, 20 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 10 mentions; 2 submissions, 8 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 0 submissions, 8 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC21120
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC1028
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC808
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

From the project README

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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
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What Hacker News says

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zten·Dec 20, 2018
Parallels is great. I like it so much that I bought the subscription, and I don't even use my Windows VM all that much. However, sadly, third-party software that spins up VMs tends to avoid supporting Parallels. I recall Vagrant having a sub-par Parallels provider (compared to the paid VMware Fusion support), and even minikube went with VMware Fusion instead. https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/220
In VirtualBox 6.0 released
spicytunacone·Oct 3, 2018
I'm reading that it's only for Docker EE or Docker Desktop (Mac/Windows). https://forums.docker.com/t/is-there-a-built-in-kubernetes-i... https://blog.docker.com/2018/07/kubernetes-is-now-available-... I just installed Docker via package manager so I guess I never really learned about the organization's offerings in total and didn't know which product I had (CE for Linux). Is there a more up-to-date/better practice for using Docker CE with k8s than this guide dated March[0] using Minikube[1]? [0]: https://blog.sourcerer.io/a-kubernetes-quick-start-for-peopl... [1]: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
In Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
marenkay·Sep 28, 2018
I'm migrating "legacy" applications (as in non-containerized ones) to container environments for medium to large companies, and I would suggest two things: - get a local test setup with minikube (https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube) and Helm (https://www.helm.sh/) and try out a few applications - convert a project of yours to a Kubernetes deployment, then a Helm chart If both steps are successful and you still feel like Kubernetes is doing a better job for you then Heroku, get a Kubernetes professional. I promise you, there will be as many problems as with any other environment. The only difference is that the Kubernetes issues are not documented.
In Kubernetes 1.12
alberteinstein·Feb 5, 2018
Having two different versions is not an issue, tools like GVM helps in managing them. Docker helps in handling this easily without any extra tools. But, if something is built with a version, it cannot be easily changed without thorough testing. For e.g. when Kubernetes was built with Go 1.8 instead of 1.7, emptyDir teardown path was broken due to the change in behavior of os.Rename in Go 1.8 [1]. This bug caused other issues like the one with minikube [2] and they had to rebuild with Go 1.7 and update new binaries for already released v0.20.0 [1] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/43534#issuec... [2] https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1630#issuecomm...
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