Minikube is a CNCF certified software to run a very minimal Kubernetes instance on your local machine. This is extremely useful in development, since you don't require any central hardware.
- local development of Kubernetes deployments
- very good support
- very good integrations in other software
- very well documented and maintained
- supports Docker, Podman and other Backends
- Site: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/
- Docs: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/
- Code: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
- addons like ingress or dashboard
- multiple backends
- multiple instances
- runs on Windows, MacOS, Linux
- very lightweight
Minikube is used exclusively for local development at while-true-do.io. It is intended to lower the barrier to get started with Kubernetes development and deployments.
The Minikube developer provide some very easy tutorials and Getting Started Guidance. It is by far not easy to get started with Kubernetes, but it is easy to get started with Minikube. :)