MiniKube Installation On CentOS

Step-by-Step: Install Minikube on CentOS

1. Prerequisites

Before installing Minikube, ensure:

A VM driver like Docker, VirtualBox, or KVM is installed

You have kubectl installed.

2. Install kubectl (Kubernetes CLI)

Your system supports virtualization (check with lscpu | grep VT)

Step 1: Download latest kubectl

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

Step 2: Make it executable

chmod +x kubectl

Step 3: Move to /usr/local/bin

sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/

Step 4: Verify

kubectl version --client

3. Install a VM Driver (Docker is recommended)

Install Docker:

sudo yum install -y yum-utils device-mapper-persistent-data lvm2

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

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

sudo systemctl start docker

sudo systemctl enable docker

Verify:

docker version

4. Install Minikube

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

sudo rpm -Uvh minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

Verify:

minikube version

5. Start Minikube

Now you're ready to launch Minikube:

minikube start --driver=docker

6. Test It

Check node status:

kubectl get nodes