Wayne Philip - My take on & use of miniKube

This document is aimed at people wh want to deploy various things with miniKube application

LINUX please :) - I use ubuntu204 but any LINUX will do also should all work on a MAC

This is specifically aimed at people wanting to set up an new environment for minikube - IT IS MY WAY - THERE ARE MANY

Feel free to fork & do whatever

SO WHY -- I need to experiment with various configurations and combination for a very complex BareMetal custer

see:

docs/MiniKubeInstallOnLinux.pdf

To FAST-TRACK miniKube installation, Install core utilities and activate argoCD on the cluster

$ ./mkStartup.sh -- [this will do what is documented in the file]

Once set up you can simply use

$ minikube start and it should all come back

###$ You may want to run multiple nodes -- this can be seen in

$ docs/miniKubeEnhanced.pdf

argoCD

Once your miniKube cluster is running you will want to get to the front-end to set up repos..

Execute:

kubectl -n argocd get secret argocd-initial-admin-secret -o jsonpath="{.data.password}" | base64 -d; echo

    -- this will give you a "passcode"

find the installed port on the cluster (default 443 )

kubectl get services -n argocd -- and you will see the port (443)

now PortForward this for your browser

kubectl port-forward svc/argocd-server -n argocd 8080:443

you can see it in localhost:8080 [you mau use any port for the 8080 part]

External References

I use argoCD for CI/CD type deployments - deployed as as per [https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/getting_started/]