Minikube Setup

Detailed Minikube configuration for PHP K8s development.

Installation

# Install Minikube
# See https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/

# Start cluster
minikube start --kubernetes-version=v1.34.6

Enable Addons

minikube addons enable volumesnapshots
minikube addons enable csi-hostpath-driver
minikube addons enable metrics-server

Install VPA

git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler.git /tmp/autoscaler
kubectl apply -f /tmp/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/deploy/vpa-v1-crd-gen.yaml
kubectl apply -f /tmp/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/deploy/recommender-deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f /tmp/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/deploy/updater-deployment.yaml
kubectl apply -f /tmp/autoscaler/vertical-pod-autoscaler/deploy/admission-controller-deployment.yaml

Install CRDs

# Sealed Secrets
kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/main/helm/sealed-secrets/crds/bitnami.com_sealedsecrets.yaml

# Gateway API
kubectl apply -f https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/gateway-api/releases/download/v1.3.0/standard-install.yaml

Expose API

kubectl proxy --port=8080 --reject-paths="^/non-existent-path" &

Verify

curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8080/version

See Also

• Development Setup - Complete development setup

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Minikube setup guide for cuppett/php-k8s fork