Here I am providing step wise guide to deploy single node MiniKube Cluster on Amazon EC2 for Kubernetes training and development purpose.

What is Minikube?

MinuKube is a lightweight K8S implementation that creates a VM on our local machine and deploy a simple cluster containing only one node.

Minimum Hardware Requirement for Minikube

• GB RAM
• vCPU
• 20 Gb Free Space

Installation Steps:

Follow the below steps for successful installation.

Step-1 : Launch Amazon EC2

Launch EC2 instance with the below configuration

• Instance Type: t2.medium ( 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM)
• Security Group: Open Port 22 from your Local System IP.
• AMI: Amazon Linux, CentOS or RHEL (Latest Version Recommended)

Step-2 : Add User for Minikube

Login to the instance using your private key and create a new user. We need to do this as we can not start minikube if we are logged in as root user. We need other user with admin privileges.

useradd minikubeuser

Step-3 : Install Docker

Install docker using below command.

yum install docker

Verify the docker by executing below command.

docker –version

Step-4 : Add User to Docker group

Add the user minikube_user to docker group.

usermod -aG docker minikube-user

Set the password for this user.

passwd

Step-5 : Install Minikube Package

Download and Install RPM package for minikube.

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

Download Minikube RPM Package

sudo rpm -ivh minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

Step-6 : Start Minikube with Docker Driver

minikube can be deployed as a VM, a container, or bare-metal. Below drivers are supported for linux

• Docker – container-based (preferred, we are installing this one)
• KVM2 – VM-based (preferred)
• VirtualBox – VM
• None – bare-metal
• Podman – container (experimental)

We will be deploying using the Docker. Switch to the non root user minikube-user before excuting below commands otherwise it will run into error.

minikube start --driver=docker

Start Minikube Using Docker Driver

To make docker the default driver:

minikube config set driver docker

Confirm and verify the minikube cluster status

minikube status

Step-7 : Install kubectl

To install kubectl we first need to add Kubernetes.repo to yum repolist

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
vi amzn2.extras.repo

Add below repository to the list.

[kubernetes]
name=Kubernetes
baseurl=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/repos/kubernetes-el7-x86_64
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/yum-key.gpg https://packages.cloud.google.com/yum/doc/rpm-package-key.gpg
EOF

Execute below command now to install kubectl

minikube kubectl --get po -A

yum install kubectl

Kubectl cluster-info
Kubectl get node

You lab environment to play with Kubernetes is UP and running now .Get your hands dirty with Kubernetes.