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Installing minikube

First of all we will install minikube. There are various of installing minikube but all most all mac developer uses brew of installing packages. brew is really simple and it make the installing process seamless.

I will be using brew but can surely use any other way of installing minikube.

brew install minikube 

This command will install minikube in your mac you can check minikube version and if you got the version it means minikube command is working and you did the installation successfully.

minikube version

Why not Xhyve?

Don’t use Xhyve on mac because it doesn’t work anymore. See what I got where I tried to start minikube using xhyve VM.

The driver xhyve is not supported on darwin

Installing HyperKit

HyperKit is an open-source hypervisor for macOS hypervisor, optimized for lightweight virtual machines and container deployment. HyperKit is recommend VM on macOS and also HyperKit require macOS 10.11+

You can read about the HyperKit drive at k8s.io docs

brew install hyperkit
brew install docker-machine-driver-hyperkit

sudo chown root:wheel $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit
sudo chmod u+s $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit

Start minikube using hyperkit

minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit

All Commands

//install minikube
brew install minikube 

// install hyperkit and driver for docker
brew install hyperkit
brew install docker-machine-driver-hyperkit

// give the required permission
sudo chown root:wheel $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit
sudo chmod u+s $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit/bin/docker-machine-driver-hyperkit

// to start minikube
minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit