minikube

Minikube, macOS, is a software running a local Kubernetes cluster on Linux and Windows operating systems. Its main purpose is to support local Kubernetes application development and to offer the appropriate Kubernetes features. LoadBalancer features standard features such as persistent volumes, multiple clusters, and Kubernetes Dashboard.

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VERSIONv1.39.0
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Common commercial products in this category: Docker Desktop, Red Hat OpenShift, Amazon EKS

What can it do?
  • On your computer, you run a local Kubernetes cluster with support for LoadBalancer, NodePorts and persistent volumes.
  • You configure the apiserver and quartet options over the command line flags.
  • You test machine learning workloads with NVIDIA and AMD GPU support.
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  • • High number of open issues (605)
User reviews
  • • NeutralHacker News

    Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes

    “> All claim to be certified as "perfectly like kubernetes" because they are. they are directly built from the go sources, all are wrappers around the meat of k8s. (which are the various control loops packaged into services like api-server, kubelet, schedulker,…”

  • • NeutralHacker News

    Minikube now supports rootless podman driver for running Kubernetes

    “Thanks for clearing that up. I remember hearing that development of docker-engine was ceasing, but could obviously live on as it was forked. I guess rootless is some of the work that Docker (company) wanted to keep proprietary and out of this open-source project. Really quite a…”

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