I want to use minikube ssh [flags] command
There is Global Flag:
-p, --profile string The name of the minikube VM being used.
So, I need to know the name of the minikube VM. How to do this?
Profiles feature on some stacks are broken since 0.26.0, and still with version 0.28.2. #2818, #2574
Without setting a profile the default profile will create a VM called "minikube".
minikube profile default
minikube profile was successfully set to minikube
Set the profile to another name,
minikube profile experiment
then view the profile set with
minikube config view
and create a new Minikube VM with that profile name
minikube start --profile experiment
With the profile set to "experiment", the VM created in VirtualBox will (should) be named "experiment".
Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your laptop for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it day-to-day.
Parameter "-p", that you mentioned, is used to name the VM where minikube creates a Kubernetes stack. Omitting this parameter presupposes default value "minikube".
For the system running minikube with the support of the VirtualBox:
VBoxManage list runningvms
First returned value is the name of minikube instance. I assume there is no other
VirtualBox session running.
Next, you can use this name to:
minikube ssh <name>
When you create minikube with -p parameter, to manage this setup you must use -p
with every minikube command call. This parameter is useful for multiple minikube instances running on the same host.
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I am trying to use Ingress in minikube by minikube addons enable ingress. However, currently Ingress cannot be used with minikube when the driver is docker on macOS based on this issue ticket.
So I turn to use hyperkit or virtualbox as driver. One image that need to be pulled when enabling Ingress is k8s.gcr.io/ingress-nginx/controller:v0.44.0. However, k8s.gcr.io is blocked in my current location.
So I try to use a VPN in global mode for my computer. However, I met this issue that hyperkit is unable to access k8s.gcr.io when the VPN is in use.
Then I found this document
https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/handbook/vpn_and_proxy/
My VPN is listening at 127.0.0.1:1087, I set
export HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1087
export HTTPS_PROXY=https://127.0.0.1:1087
export NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.96.0.0/12,192.168.99.0/24,192.168.39.0/24
Then I tried all these methods to start minikube:
minikube start --driver=hyperkit
minikube start --driver=virtualbox
minikube start --driver=hyperkit --docker-env HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1087 --docker-env HTTPS_PROXY=https://127.0.0.1:1087 --docker-env NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.96.0.0/12,192.168.99.0/24,192.168.39.0/24
But I saw these messages:
😄 minikube v1.21.0 on Darwin 11.2.3
✨ Using the hyperkit driver based on user configuration
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTPS_PROXY=https://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
👍 Starting control plane node minikube in cluster minikube
🔥 Creating hyperkit VM (CPUs=2, Memory=6000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTPS_PROXY=https://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
and
😄 minikube v1.21.0 on Darwin 11.2.3
✨ Using the virtualbox driver based on existing profile
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTP_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
❗ Local proxy ignored: not passing HTTPS_PROXY=https://127.0.0.1:1087 to docker env.
Seems this "user configuration" overwrite my proxy config. But where is this "user configuration"?
What is the correct way to set proxy for minikube when the drive hyperkit or virtualbox? Thanks!
My guess is 127.0.0.1 conflicts with the VM's internal 127.0.0.1 address, and that's why it's ignored. You might need to configure your proxy to be your host's network IP instead of 127.0.0.1? You might not even need to configure a proxy? Also, the Virtualbox driver gives me problems with VPN. I have the best luck with the VMware driver, and can also get the HyperKit driver to work if I update the VM's DNS to my host's DNS.
minikube start --driver hyperkit
minikube ssh sudo resolvectl dns eth0 192.168.0.53
minikube ssh sudo resolvectl domain eth0 example.com
I also get the unable to access k8s.gcr.io error when creating the VM, but it doesn't seem to affect things.
Downloading this image using docker, exporting it to file, transfering it to minikube VM and importing it to local docker registry, like in this thread has solved the problem.
Your proxy is for circumventing the China Greate Firewall correct? Then I know why it is not working. It is not releated to hyperkit or virutalbox at all.
I checked the source code of minikube. "Local proxy ignored" actually means that your proxy url is set to localhost (127.0.*) and minikube thinks you set the proxy incorrectly so it will just ignore this setting.
The resolution is just to edit your host file (for Windows it is in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts), to give 127.0.0.1 a hostname. You can add the following line into the end of the host file.
127.0.0.1 localproxy
Then change environment variable http_proxy and https_proxy to http://localproxy:1235.
Reopen the CMD window to get the updated environment variable and restart the minikue. You should be able to find that the "Local proxy ignored" message is gone and finally you can download the image from gcr.io.
I tend to run minikube start with a handful of flags. Like --memory and --cpus and --kubernetes-verison. I'd like to specify this in a file and not have to create a shell script that makes this start-up simple and consistent. Does such a thing already exists in some capacity?
The best option is use minikube config to customize the minikube startup.
The command minikube config writes a file in ~/.minikube/config/config.json and you can set options using miikube config set [OPTION] [VALUE].
Here you can find a list of available commands.
To set the parameters mentioned in your post, you need to use:
minikube config set memory xxx
minikube config set cpus xxx
minikube config set kubernetes-version xxx
Please refer to documentation page to get all options.
I am using eclipse docker tooling perspective to handle minikube docker repository on windows 10. The installation and configuration of minikube are successful.
> minikube docker-env
$Env:DOCKER_TLS_VERIFY = "1"
$Env:DOCKER_HOST = "tcp://172.17.63.134:2376"
$Env:DOCKER_CERT_PATH = "C:\Users\joseph\.minikube\certs"
$Env:MINIKUBE_ACTIVE_DOCKERD = "minikube"
# To point your shell to minikube's docker-daemon, run:
# & minikube -p minikube docker-env | Invoke-Expression
When managing docker images, I use docker explorer of docker tooling perspective. And below image is the the Docker Connection Dialog
[Test Connection] is successful and the connection throws no errors. But the problem is the DOCKER_HOST of minikube is variable. The DOCKER_HOST is not fixed and is changeable whenever minikube is started. I want to know how to fix the DOCKER_HOST ip address when minikube is started or the system variable of DOCKER_HOST with which I can set the value of docker tcp connection URI of eclipse IDE.
I've reproduced your problem using the following steps:
minikube start --vm-driver=xhyve
minikube ip (note the IP address)
minikube stop
minikube delete
minikube start --vm-driver=xhyve
minikube ip (IP address has changed)
After digging around I understood that at the moment there is no support for predictable IP's across restarts.
There is an open issue for this and you can follow it here.
I am exploring and learning about containers and kubernetes using podman and minikube on a linux workstation. I use podman to build images on the workstation and would like to deploy these images in minikube also running on the workstation using the kvm2 virtual machine driver. I also start minikube using the CRI-O container runtime.
What are efficient workflows to deploy these images from the workstation to minikube in this scenario? Docker is not running on the minikube VM so the reusing the Docker daemon as described in the minikube documentation is not an option. Sharing the host file system with minikube also appears to not be viable at this time when using kvm2.
Is running a local registry that is visible to both the workstation and the minikube vm the best option? Answers to How to use local docker images with Minikube? and (Kubernetes + Minikube) can't get docker image from local registry appear to offer good solutions for configuring a local registry.
Would skopeo be a solution?
Edit: this is a nice post describing how to set up a registry using podman: https://computingforgeeks.com/create-docker-container-registry-with-podman-letsencrypt/
thank you
Brad
Minikube documentation provides the foundation for a potential workflow at https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/tasks/docker_registry/. In order to use podman in lieu of docker I did the following
Start minikube, as instructed, with the --insecure-registry flag. I specifically use
minikube start --network-plugin=cni --enable-default-cni --bootstrapper=kubeadm --container-runtime=cri-o --cpus 4 --memory 4g --insecure-registry "192.168.39.0/24"
Enable the minikube registry addon.
minikube addons enable registry
Configure podman to use the insecure minikube registry by adding the registry to the insecure registries section of /etc/containers/registries.conf. This section now looks like
[registries.insecure]
registries = ['192.168.39.175:5000']
where 192.168.39.175 is the minikube ip. This ip may change following minikube restarts.
Follow the build, push and run commands in https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/tasks/docker_registry/ substituting podman for docker. This assumes the test-img container file exists.
Build: podman build --tag $(minikube ip):5000/test-img .
Push: podman push $(minikube ip):5000/test-img
Run: kubectl run test-img --image=$(minikube ip):5000/test-img
This worked but suffers from a serious complication: there is no apparent way at this time to set the IP address for the minikube VM when using kvm2. The IP will always be in the 192.168.39.0/24 subnet but that is the only certainty. Each time minikube is started the IP address of the registry will change which has significant implications for podman and the workflow in general.
More to come an another solution.
How to ssh to the node inside the cluster in local. I am using docker edge version which has kubernetes inbuilt. If i run
kubectl ssh node
I am getting
Error: unknown command "ssh" for "kubectl"
Did you mean this?
set
Run 'kubectl --help' for usage.
error: unknown command "ssh" for "kubectl"
Did you mean this?
set
There is no "ssh" command in kubectl yet, but there are plenty of options to access Kubernetes node shell.
In case you are using cloud provider, you are able to connect to nodes directly from instances management interface.
For example, in GCP: Select Menu -> Compute Engine -> VM instances, then press SSH button on the left side of the desired node instance.
In case of using local VM (VMWare, Virtualbox), you can configure sshd before rolling out Kubernetes cluster, or use VM console, which is available from management GUI.
Vagrant provides its own command to access VMs - vagrant ssh
In case of using minikube, there is minikube ssh command to connect to minikube VM. There are also other options.
I found no simple way to access docker-for-desktop VM, but you can easily switch to minikube for experimenting with node settings.
How to ssh to the node inside the cluster in local
Kubernetes is aware of nodes on level of secure communication with kubelets on nodes (geting hostname and ip from node), and as such, does not provide cluster-level ssh to nodes out of the box. Depending on your actual provide/setup there are different ways of connecting to nodes and they all boil down to locate your ssh key, open appropriate ports on firewall/security groups and issue ssh -i key user#node_instance_ip command to access node. If you are running locally with virtual machines you can setup your own ssh keypairs and do the trick..
You can effectively shell into a pod using exec(I know its not exactly what the question asks, but might be helpful).
An example usage would be kubectl exec -it name-of-your-pod -- /bin/bash. assuming you have bash installed.
Hope that helps.
You have to first Extend kubectl with plugins adding https://github.com/luksa/kubectl-plugins.
Basically, to "install" ssh, e.g.:
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/luksa/kubectl-plugins/master/kubectl-ssh
Then make sure the file is in kubectl-ssh your path.