Microk8s

Minikube is very popular and the most known Kubernetes version for local software development. It runs inside a virtual machine like VirtualBox and allows developers to run Kubernetes applications locally. As Docker runs natively just on Linux, you may wonder why do we need virtual machine on Linux? Well, not anymore.

Mac users have no other way of running Docker except in a virtual machine, hidden or visible. However, Linux users should be able to run Docker and Kubernetes over it just on the bare metal. Minikube has possibility to run on Linux without a virtual machine, but as it installs locally in that case, different configuration files get spread over the host system and this is pretty much messy, actually not much different than installing Kubernetes using kubeadm . Fortunatelly, MicroK8s comes as help.