Clunky hero mac os. This is a step-by-step guide to installing and running Kubernetes on your Mac so that you can develop applications locally.
You will be guided through running and accessing a Kubernetes cluster on your local machine using the following tools:
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- Homebrew
- Docker for Mac
- Minikube
- virtualbox
- kubectl
Mac Os Versions
Installation Guide
The only pre-requisite for this guide is that you have Homebrew installed. Homebrew is a package manager for the Mac. You’ll also need Homebrew Cask, which you can install after Homebrew by running
brew tap caskroom/cask
in your Terminal.- Install Docker for Mac. Docker is used to create, manage, and run our containers. It lets us construct containers that will run in Kubernetes Pods.
- Install VirtualBox for Mac using Homebrew. Run
brew cask install virtualbox
in your Terminal. VirtualBox lets you run virtual machines on your Mac (like running Windows inside macOS, except for a Kubernetes cluster.)Skip to step three if everything has worked to this point.In my case, I already had the non-Homebrew VirtualBox app installed which caused issues when trying to start minikube.If you already have VirtualBox installed, start the installation as before withbrew cask install virtualbox
. You will get a warning that confirms this sayingWarning: Cask 'virtualbox' is already installed.
. Once this is confirmed, you can reinstall VirtualBox with Homebrew by runningbrew cask reinstall virtualbox
. Bbox mac os.If you happen to have VirtualBox already running when you do this, you could see an error sayingFailed to unload org.virtualbox.kext.VBoxDrv - (libkern/kext) kext is in use or retained (cannot unload).
This is because the kernel extensions that VirtualBox uses were in use when the uninstall occurred. If you scroll up in the output of that command, beneathWarning! Found the following active VirtualBox processes:
you’ll see a list of the processes that need to be killed.Kill each of these in turn by runningkill first_column_number
(first_column_number
is the process identifier for that process).Now re-runbrew cask reinstall virtualbox
and it should succeed. - Install
kubectl
for Mac. This is the command-line interface that lets you interact with Kuberentes. Runbrew install kubectl
in your Terminal. - Install Minikube via the Installation > OSX instructions from the latest release. At the time of writing, this meant running the following command in Terminal…Minikube will run a Kubernetes cluster with a single node.
- Everything should work! Start your Minikube cluster with
minikube start
. Then runkubectl api-versions
. If you see a list of versions, everything’s working!minikube start
might take a few minutes.
At this point, I got an error saying
Error starting host: Error getting state for host: machine does not exist.
because I had previously tried to run Minikube. You can fix this by running open ~/.minikube/
to open Minikube’s data files, and then deleting and deleting the machines
directory. Then run minikube start
again.Come Together
You’ve installed all these tools and everything looks like it’s working. A quick explanation of how the components relate is needed.
Mac Os Catalina
- VirtualBox is a generic tool for running virtual machines. You can use it to run Ubuntu, Windows, etc. inside your macOS operating system host.
- Minikube is a Kubernetes-specific package that runs a Kubernetes cluster on your machine. That cluster has a single node and has some unique features that make it more suitable for local development. Minikube tells VirtualBox to run. Minikube can use other virtualization tools—not just VirtualBox—however these require extra configuration.
kubectl
is the command line application that lets you interact with your Minikube Kubernetes cluster. It sends request to the Kubernetes API server running on the cluser to manage your Kubernetes environment.kubectl
is like any other application that runs on your Mac—it just makes HTTP requests to the Kubernetes API on the cluster.