minikube ( playgroud for kubernetes )

Exercise Goal : Bring up minikube ( kubernetes ) in local VM

Bringing up minikube (kubenetes) + weave scope ( a monitoring stack ) in local laptop

• Minikube 
• I am on OS X Darwin, I got virtual box installed
• Lets get started https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube
• Install below if not exist, “Requirements"
• xhyve driver, VirtualBox or VMware Fusion installation
• Get minikube latest release
• Follow instructions as in the page , minikube start …
• I got the dashboard on by
• minikube dashboard
• More links https://medium.com/@claudiopro/getting-started-with-kubernetes-via-minikube-ada8c7a29620#.gc87faxvq
• http://blog.kubernetes.io/2016/07/minikube-easily-run-kubernetes-locally.html

#minikube addons list

- registry-creds: disabled

- addon-manager: enabled

- dashboard: enabled

- kube-dns: enabled

- heapster: disabled

- ingress: disabled

I could not successfully bring in weave, i like it better graphically, but all i got it heapster for now

#minikube addons enable heapster 

heapster was successfully enabled

Kubectl Drain

#kubectl drain minikube —force

This node minikube will be drained and all services will be stopped by force, there is an option to provide grace time.

To recover a node which has drained

#kubectl uncordon minikube

Heapster – the influx , graphana, dashboard for kube

#minikube addons open heapster 

This should open a browser and graphana showing pods, cluster