Minikube

Install

To check if virtualization is supported on macOS, run the following command on your terminal.

sysctl -a | grep -E --color 'machdep.cpu.features|VMX'

If you see VMX in the output (should be colored), the VT-x feature is enabled in your machine.

Install kubectl with Homebrew on macOS
1. Run the installation command:
```
brew install kubectl   
```
1. Test to ensure the version you installed is up-to-date:
```
kubectl version --client
```
Install a Hypervisor

If you do not already have a hypervisor installed, install one of these now:
Install Minikube with Homebrew on macOS
```
brew install minikube
```

To confirm successful installation of both a hypervisor and Minikube, you can run the following command to start up a local Kubernetes cluster:

minikube start --driver=<driver_name>

Note: A full list of --driver values is available in specifying the VM driver documentation

Here we start minikube within docker driver. More info about minikube docker driver

minikube start --driver=docker

To make docker the default driver:

minikube config set driver docker

>❗  These changes will take effect upon a minikube delete and then a minikube start

To set resource as default when starting minikube

minikube config set memory 4096
minikube config set cpus 4

Also, you could use specified kubernetes version when starting minikube

minikube start --kubernetes-version v1.15.3

Once minikube start finishes, run the command below to check the status of the cluster:

minikube status

If your cluster is running, the output from minikube status should be similar to:

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

To stop your cluster, run:

minikube stop

Starting a dashboard to monitoring k8s

minikube dashboard

Or using the IDE Lens

If you have previously installed Minikube, and run:

minikube start

and minikube start returned an error:

machine does not exist

then you need to clear minikube's local state:

minikube delete