⛔️ [DEPRECATED] Minikube + xhyve workaround

xhyve-minikube-start.sh

#! /bin/bash

# Minikube 0.19 has some issues with with xhyve driver after stop. Workaround.
xhyve_minikube_start() {
  # Require the administrator password upfront. If the user already has a sudo
  # session, sudo validate here will not prompt again, but will silently succeed.
  sudo -v
  if [ $? == 1 ]; then
    echo 'You must enter an administrative password to use this script.'
    exit 1
  fi

  which brew &> /dev/null
  if [ $? == 1 ]; then
    # homebrew is not installed. Do it.
    /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
  fi

  brew cask list minikube &> /dev/null
  if [ $? == 1 ]; then
    # minikube cask is not installed. Do it.
    # ref: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube#macos
    brew cask install minikube
  fi

  brew list docker-machine-driver-xhyve &> /dev/null
  if [ $? == 1 ]; then
    # xhyve driver is not installed. Do it.
    # ref: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/DRIVERS.md#xhyve-driver
    brew install docker-machine-driver-xhyve
  fi

  # If we remove ~/.minikube while minikube is running, we get to a dirty
  # minikube state, and would be forced to `minikube delete`. So stop it first.
  minikube stop
  # ref: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/307#issuecomment-295243637
  # ref: https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/issues/156#issuecomment-300051049
  sudo rm -rf ~/.minikube
  sudo chown root:wheel $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
  sudo chmod u+s $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
  # This also sets kuberentes cluster congtext to 'minikube'.
  minikube start --vm-driver xhyve
}

xhyve_minikube_start

@sampowers Hey that's much more robust (a much larger scope than mine here).

Luckily the xhyve driver issue has been resolved as of the latest version of docker-machine-driver-xhyve: https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/releases/tag/v0.3.3

Deprecating this gist 👍