How to install Minikube on Rocky Linux

Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster locally on your computer. It allows developers to test and experiment with Kubernetes without needing a remote cluster. Minikube runs a virtual machine on your local machine and then deploys a cluster inside that virtual machine.

It uses virtualization software such as Docker, QEMU, KVM2, VirtualBox, VMware, Podman, or Hyper-V to run a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a virtual machine. This makes it easy to set up and run a cluster on your local machine for development and testing purposes. Minikube also provides a command line interface that allows you to interact with the cluster, such as deploying and scaling applications and managing the cluster's resources.

In this article, we will use Docker as the driver type for Minikube.

First, let's set up Docker.

Step 1. Adding the Docker repository

 sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo https://download.docker.com/linux/centos/docker-ce.repo

Step 2. In this step, we install Docker and its dependencies.

sudo dnf -y install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io

Step 4. Starting Docker

sudo systemctl start docker

Step 5. Let’s test if Docker works.

sudo docker run hello-world

Step 6. Adding the current user to the docker user group.

sudo usermod -aG docker $USER && newgrp docker

Step 7. Download Minikube package.

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

Step 8. Install Minikube

sudo dnf install ./minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

Step 9. Install and setup Kubectl

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

Step 10. Start Minikube with Docker as the driver type.

minikube start --driver=docker

You can also set the driver type to Docker

minikube config set driver docker

Additional steps (optional)

You can check the status of the Minikube environment by running minikube status.

minikube status

The output should be similar to

minikube
type: Control Plane
host: Running
kubelet: Running
apiserver: Running
kubeconfig: Configured

Now go ship containers.