DZone
Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile
  • Manage Email Subscriptions
  • How to Post to DZone
  • Article Submission Guidelines
Sign Out View Profile
  • Post an Article
  • Manage My Drafts
Over 2 million developers have joined DZone.
Log In / Join
Refcards Trend Reports Events Over 2 million developers have joined DZone. Join Today! Thanks for visiting DZone today,
Edit Profile Manage Email Subscriptions Moderation Admin Console How to Post to DZone Article Submission Guidelines
View Profile
Sign Out
Refcards
Trend Reports
Events
Zones
Culture and Methodologies Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Partner Zones AWS Cloud
by AWS Developer Relations
Culture and Methodologies
Agile Career Development Methodologies Team Management
Data Engineering
AI/ML Big Data Data Databases IoT
Software Design and Architecture
Cloud Architecture Containers Integration Microservices Performance Security
Coding
Frameworks Java JavaScript Languages Tools
Testing, Deployment, and Maintenance
Deployment DevOps and CI/CD Maintenance Monitoring and Observability Testing, Tools, and Frameworks
Partner Zones
AWS Cloud
by AWS Developer Relations
Securing Your Software Supply Chain with JFrog and Azure
Register Today

Trending

  • Step Into Serverless Computing
  • Top Six React Development Tools
  • Adding Mermaid Diagrams to Markdown Documents
  • Decoding eBPF Observability: How eBPF Transforms Observability as We Know It

Trending

  • Step Into Serverless Computing
  • Top Six React Development Tools
  • Adding Mermaid Diagrams to Markdown Documents
  • Decoding eBPF Observability: How eBPF Transforms Observability as We Know It
  1. DZone
  2. Data Engineering
  3. AI/ML
  4. Access Minikube Using Kubectl From Remote Machine

Access Minikube Using Kubectl From Remote Machine

Check out this article if you want to learn how to access Minikube development cluster with kubectl client, just like your access Kubernetes cluster to test your deployments.

Kuljeet Singh user avatar by
Kuljeet Singh
CORE ·
Aug. 31, 20 · Tutorial
Like (2)
Save
Tweet
Share
17.66K Views

Join the DZone community and get the full member experience.

Join For Free

What Is Minikube?

Minikube is a tool that makes it easy to run Kubernetes locally. It runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster inside a Virtual Machine (VM) on your laptop for users looking to try out Kubernetes or develop with it day-to-day. 

Installing Minikube

If you do not have a minikube setup just use the below link to setup. 

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/learning-environment/minikube/

Install Kubectl

 It will help you connect to the minikube API server and schedule deployments. 

curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/

$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/

stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

Apply Port Forwarding in Network Settings

Once the setup is done open the network setting of minikube in VirtualBox and adds port forwarding to 8443. Port 51928 is mapped to 8443 of minikube in network settings below. 

minikube

Start Minikube 

The next step is to start a minikube. Take a note of the IP address of your machine, for me, it was 192.168.0.101.

minikube start — apiserver-ips=192.168.0.101

minikube start --apiserver-ips=192.168.0.101

Copy the Certificates and Key Files To Remote Machine

Copy ca.crt, client.crt and client.key to the remote machine and it has kubectl client, they are marked as yellow below. Please note both machines should be on the same network. 

apiserver

Run Base64 Encode

On remote machine Base64 encode the 3 files ca.crt, client.crt and client.crt and create a config file(location of config file is $HOME/.kube/config) with following content. 

Java
 




x
19


 
1
apiVersion: v1
2
clusters:
3
- cluster:
4
certificate-authority-data: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUSUZJQ0FURS0tLS0tCk1JSUM1ekNDQWMrZ0F3SUJBZ0lCQVRBTkJna3Foa2lHOXcwQkFRc0ZBREFWTVJNd0VRWURWUVFERS0tLS0tCg==
5
server: https://192.168.0.101:51928
6
name: minikube
7
contexts:
8
- context:
9
cluster: minikube
10
user: minikube
11
name: minikube
12
current-context: minikube
13
kind: Config
14
preferences: {}
15
users:
16
- name: minikube
17
user:
18
client-certificate-data: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBDRVJUSUZJQ0FURS0tLS0tCk1JSURBRENDQWVpZ0F3SUJBZ0lCQWpBTkJna3Foa2lHOXcwQkFRc0ZBREFWTVJNd0VRWURWUVFEBVEUtLS0tLQo=
19
 client-key-data: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiBSU0EgUFJJVkFURSBLRVktLS0tLQpNSUlFcEFJQkFBS0NBUUVBcDM2eVJMNmt6cXVvQVBQWkxQNmlXNlZ1WHBteVZUeTBsR3pmUX0tLQo=



Replace Content of Following Keys With base64 Encoded Content in Kube Config File Above

certificate-authority-data: with base64 encoded ca.crt

client-certificate-data: with base64 encoded client.crt

client-key-data: with base64 encoded client.key

Access the Cluster  

You can now run the kubectl command to access this minikube cluster.

kube-system

Credits for help in starting minikube: 

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1974#issuecomment-360197415

Machine remote

Opinions expressed by DZone contributors are their own.

Trending

  • Step Into Serverless Computing
  • Top Six React Development Tools
  • Adding Mermaid Diagrams to Markdown Documents
  • Decoding eBPF Observability: How eBPF Transforms Observability as We Know It

Comments

Partner Resources

X

ABOUT US

  • About DZone
  • Send feedback
  • Careers
  • Sitemap

ADVERTISE

  • Advertise with DZone

CONTRIBUTE ON DZONE

  • Article Submission Guidelines
  • Become a Contributor
  • Visit the Writers' Zone

LEGAL

  • Terms of Service
  • Privacy Policy

CONTACT US

  • 600 Park Offices Drive
  • Suite 300
  • Durham, NC 27709
  • support@dzone.com

Let's be friends: