Mac m1 – How to Install Kubernetes with minikube

Steps to install kubernetes on Mac m1:

1. Install docker on mac (m1) from the link. Run docker.
2. Install minikube. minikube lets you run Kubernetes on your local computer
   brew install minikube
3. Start minikube cluster (minikube detailed documentation)
   minikube start
   

   minikube v1.28.0 on Darwin 12.6 (arm64)
   ✨  Automatically selected the docker driver
   📌  Using Docker Desktop driver with root privileges
   👍  Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
   🚜  Pulling base image ...
   🔥  Creating docker container (CPUs=2, Memory=7803MB) ...
   🐳  Preparing Kubernetes v1.25.3 on Docker 20.10.20 ...
       ▪ Generating certificates and keys ...
       ▪ Booting up control plane ...
       ▪ Configuring RBAC rules ...
   🔎  Verifying Kubernetes components...
       ▪ Using image gcr.io/k8s-minikube/storage-provisioner:v5
   🌟  Enabled addons: storage-provisioner, default-storageclass
   🏄  Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube" cluster and "default" namespace by default

4. This will create a minikube cluster in docker as shown below
   
5. Install kubectl
   brew install kubectl
6. Check kubectl version
   kubectl version --client --output=yaml
7. Check cluster info using kubectl
   kubectl cluster-info
   

   Kubernetes control plane is running at https://127.0.0.1:50303
   CoreDNS is running at https://127.0.0.1:50303/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy
   
   To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

8. Get kubectl config (this is configured when cluster is created to set default context for cluster)
   kubectl config view
9. Change default context for kubectl command
   kubectl config use-context minikube
   ( Use kubectl config current-context to see current context)
10. List all pods on a specific namespace (use -A for all namespaces)
    kubectl get pods -n kube-system
    

    NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS        AGE
    coredns-565d847f94-52kkd           1/1     Running   0               2m58s
    etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0               3m11s
    kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0               3m13s
    kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0               3m12s
    kube-proxy-64pwk                   1/1     Running   0               2m58s
    kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0               3m13s
    storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   1 (2m27s ago)   3m10s

11. See all namespaces
    kubectl get namespace
12. View minikube kebernetes dashboard
    minikube dashboard
    (For specific profile use: minikube dashboard –profile minikube2)
13. Alternate to minikube dashboard (which also uses proxy), we can also run
    kubectl proxy
kubectl proxy --port=8001
    and visit
    http://127.0.0.1:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kubernetes-dashboard/services/http:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy/
14. To delete minikube cluster
    minikube delete
    (use –all to delete all clusters)