Cleaner micro Kubernetes on OSX

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 15:41:17 +0000

While my main workstation is a Linux Mint machine, I occasionally use my OSX ${WORK} laptop for traveling and composing. I’m not really fond of the OS, but at least it’s an UNIX-like, and pkgin runs well with it ;)
When I’m “on the go”, I like to try things and play along with technologies I’m currently obsessed with, among them Kubernetes.
On OSX, the natural choice is to go with minikube, it’s kind of integrated and does the job well, but if you tried it already and also happen to run docker for OSX you might have found yourself struggling with versions and consistency between the two. Added to this that I wanted to have a fully functional Linux virtual machine, preferably Debian GNU/Linux, there was way too much inconsistencies and wasted disk and CPU space to come. So I dug by myself and found a clean and fast solution by spawning my own virtual machine using OSX native hypervisor, which runs Canonical’s microk8s, a nicely done snap package to install a fully working and modular Kubernetes cluster on a Linux machine.

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Cleaner micro Kubernetes on OSX