(minikube-k8s)

Kubernetes on minikube (for learning and development only)

minikube can setup a Kubernetes cluster on a single computer. minikube be suitable in order to learn about Kubernetes and to develop and test changes, but its not meant to be used for production purposes.

Important

The Zero to JupyterHub guide assumes you’re using a managed Kubernetes service with one of the main cloud platforms and minikube is not officially supported. You may be able to get help on the Jupyter community forum.

Kubernetes cluster requirements

All the requirements are implemented in minikube >= v1.31.2:

• Dynamic Volume Provisioning for persistent storage

• LoadBalancer or Ingress for managing external access to JupyterHub

minikube installation

Follow the installation steps in the minikube’s “Get Started!” page.

Kubernetes cluster creation

From a terminal, run

minikube start \
--kubernetes-version stable \
--nodes 2 \
--cpus 2 \
--memory 2000 \
--cni calico

To test if your cluster is initialized, run:

kubectl get node

The response should list two running nodes (or however many nodes you set with ``–nodes` above).

Congrats. Now that you have your Kubernetes cluster running, it’s time to begin Setting up helm.