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minikube-vagrant

Minikube on Ubuntu

Using Vagrant and VirtualBox this Vagrantfile can be used to start a virtual machine that will automatically install Minikube, kubectl and some other useful tools (kubectx + kubens: Power tools for kubectl) during provisioning. During each start of the virtual machine with the Vagrantfile the Kubernetes cluster on Minikube is automatically started and the cluster is stopped when the VM is halted.

In order to be able to run minikube dashboard to show the Kubernetes dashboard of the cluster in a browser on the virtual machine the Vagrantfile also provisions the Firefox browser and the required X Window packages. To actually show the browser a X server on the host system is required. This can be easily accomplished by using MobaXterm as the SSH client to login to the virtual machine.

To use this VM perform the following steps (tested on Windows 10 Pro):

1. When necessary install Vagrant and VirtualBox.
2. Clone this repository and switch to the right branch.
3. In the root folder of the clone repository run vagrant up.
4. When the VM is provisioned it's advised to restart it by running vagrant halt and then vagrant up again.
5. Login to the VM using vagrant ssh or use a SSH client such as MobaXterm.
6. When ready logout from the VM and stop it using vagrant halt.

When using a SSH client one can login to the VM with user vagrant and password vagrant. Instead of using a password one can also use the private_key created in subfolder .vagrant/machines/default/virtualbox.