Install Kubernetes on Mac

Posted 2021-09-17 Dream_it_possible！

Prepare

  1. We need docker engine as  a driver to install Kubernetes, so we can install docker-desktop-for mac , it helps us easily make a docker engine,use the link below to download docker images for mac

  https://www.docker.com/get-started

  2. Install minikube

  minikube is a tool to help us to  install kubernetes, If the Brew Package Manager is installed:

brew install minikube

  If which minikube fails after installation via brew, you may have to remove the old minikube links and link the newly installed binary:

brew unlink minikube
brew link minikube

  From what mentioned above, minikube  should work!Let's move on the next step.

Install Kubernetes  

  If you install minikube successfully, use the following command to install kubernetes

minikube start

  If there is a block during the startup process, please check whether the docker is started!  

  We can adopt this way to link docker engine,start a cluster using the docker driver:

minikube start --driver=docker

  Making docker the default driver:

minikube config set driver docker

  If you finished the config  for the docker engine, we can use  minikube to start the kubernetes cluster. 

  When needed images are pulled, you can see like this:

  However, It didn't work when I wondered to know the version of kubectl! 

  To solve this problem, we can use the instruction brew!

brew install kubectl

  If you got a  warning after you finished installing kubectl, just input the instruction:

brew link kubectl-cli

  There are some tips below:

  It's a good choice to use kubectl to check whether the kubernetes are sucessfully installed!   

  Finally,If you want to see the dashboard for kubernetes, minikube can give you a hand

   It will open a default brower to display the kubernetes dashboard!

  That's all,wish you good luck! 

reference: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/