Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally, by running a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your desktop or laptop. Craig and Adam talk to author and maintainer Dan Lorenc from Google Cloud, and in the wake of the Super Bowl, discuss how “football” means something different to each of them.

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Chatter of the week

News of the week

Spark Operator for Kubernetes now in Beta
- IBM Cloud Databases report on the Operator Pattern
New members in the CNCF TOC
- Alexis Richardson from Weaveworks
- Brendan Burns from Microsoft
- Joe Beda from VMware
- Matt Klein from Lyft
- Xiang Li from Alibaba
- Kelsey Hightower from Google
Google Kubernetes Engine usage metering
Advanced application deployments and traffic management with Istio on GKE
- GitHub repo
- Megan’s development workflow for Kubernetes
Ambassador 0.5.0
- API Gateways are going through an identity crisis
Kubernetes as an API standard; looking toward a Rust implementation

Links from the interview

Dan leads a team working on:
Minikube was helped in the early days by Localkube from RedSpread, who were acquired by CoreOS (who were acquired by Red Hat, who were acquired by IBM)
- There was also Boot2docker, but Kubernetes didn’t like Docker-in-Docker much back then
Guide for developing Minikube
Other similar projects:
- Microk8s
- Docker Desktop
Things it was hard to get working:
- Load balancers; solved via tunneling
- Persistent volume provisioning, solved with a custom hostpath provisioner
Minikube Roadmap
Dan Lorenc on GitHub and on the web

Minikube, with Dan Lorenc