minikube with hyperkit

minikube-hyperkit.md

minikube is an easy way to work with local kubernetes on osx. By default its uses VirtulBox to create a VM which hosts docker/kubernetes. But you can use different vm drivers to manage the VM. Hyperkit seems to be a more reliable hypervisor.

The rest of this document explains how to use minikube with the hyperkit driver

install minikube

You can check if you have minikube installed:

$ minikube version
minikube version: v0.27.0

If you dont have it, use brew to install:

brew cask install minikube

isntall the driver

brew install docker-machine-driver-hyperkit 

make sure you execute the 2 sudo lines from instructions:

sudo chown root:wheel /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit
sudo chmod u+s /usr/local/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit

delete old minikube

minikube delete

if the previous machine is stuck you can force delete it:

rm -rf ~/.minikube/machines/

start minikube on hyperkit

minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit