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
Ingress
Dashboard - minikube dashboard
Container runtimes - start --container-runtime
Configure apiserver and kubelet options via command-line flags

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
Filesystem mounts

For more information, see the official minikube website

Installation

Installation methods can be found in the Getting Started Guide

Documentation

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

More Examples

See our examples page

Community

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