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How to Install & Set Up Minikube and kind

Spin up a local Kubernetes cluster for development with Minikube (VM/container-based) or kind (Kubernetes IN Docker).

Updated 20264-step setupDownload Minikube / kind →

Prerequisites

  • ✓Docker (or another supported driver/hypervisor) installed
  • ✓kubectl installed

Option A — Minikube (generic binary)

terminal
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
minikube start

Option A (alternative) — Minikube's native .deb / .rpm package

Minikube also publishes proper distro packages if you'd rather have it managed by apt or dnf instead of a loose binary in /usr/local/bin.

Debian / Ubuntu
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube_latest_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i minikube_latest_amd64.deb
RHEL / CentOS Stream / Fedora
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm
sudo rpm -Uvh minikube-latest.x86_64.rpm

Option B — kind (Kubernetes in Docker)

terminal
curl -Lo ./kind https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/dl/latest/kind-linux-amd64
chmod +x ./kind
sudo mv ./kind /usr/local/bin/kind
kind create cluster

Verify the cluster

terminal
kubectl cluster-info
kubectl get nodes

Documentation & Knowledge Base

Official DocumentationMinikube Documentation →Knowledge Base & Communitykind Quick Start →
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