minikube_installation_aws.md

Minikube Installation

Install Docker

For Amazon Linux 2

  sudo yum install docker

Adding user to docker

After installing, the current user should be added to the docker group to access docker runtime

Note: Make sure not to use root user as minikube doesnt support root user to use docker runtime

sudo groupadd docker
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER

Now log back in for the changes to apply and press the below command for changes to apply

newgrp docker

minikube installation

Now we can install minikube with the below command

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

With the above command, we have the minikube installed.

now to start the minikube with docker as the driver, press the below command

minikube start --driver=docker