Set up Minikube

The instructions for this workshop should work for any Kubernetes cluster. However, for simplicity and consistency, Minikube will be used during this workshop.

Installation

You should be using Minikube version 1.25. More recent versions should be working, but were not tested.

You can install Minikube by running the following on *nix systems.

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Start the Minikube instance

You are now ready to start your Minikube instance. If you already used Minikube in the past, it is strongly recommended that you start with a new clean environment.

danger

Running the following command will remove any existing Minikube environment and any work you done previously will be gone forever.

minikube delete

You are now ready to start Minikube. Run Minikube with --host-dns-resolver=true and --dns-proxy=false to ensure that the MongoDB server discovery will work. On MacOS, you might also need to use --driver=none as VirtualBox has some known issues.

minikube start --driver=none --kubernetes-version=v1.23.3 --host-dns-resolver=true --dns-proxy=false

Enable the Ingress addon

As part of this workshop, you will need to install the ingress addon. This can be done with the following command.

minikube addons enable ingress