Installing MicroK8s on Windows 10/11

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ⓘ Note: We recommend Windows 10 Professional or Windows 10 Enterprise. MicroK8s will also require at least 4GB of available RAM and 40GB of storage.

1. Download the MicroK8s Installer
   Download the latest installer here

2. Run the installer
   

   The installer checks if Hyper-V is available and switched on. If you don’t have Hyper-v (e.g. on Windows 10 Home edition) it is possible to use VirtualBox as an alternative.

3. Configure MicroK8s
   

   You can now configure MicroK8s - the minimum recommendations are already provided. For information on changing the ‘Snap Track’, see this page.

   You can change this configuration at a later date by re-running the installer. Note that the Memory and Disk limits are initially set at the minimum values. If you are planning on running large workloads (e.g. kubeflow will require around 12GB RAM) you will want to set these higher.

4. Open a command line and check the status with microk8s status --wait-ready:
   

   

5. Turn on the services you want
   MicroK8s includes a series of add-ons and services which can be enabled at any time. For example:

   microk8s enable dns
   microk8s enable storage
   microk8s enable ingress
   microk8s enable dashboard
   

   You can disable addons with the microk8s disable <addon> command.

6. Start using Kubernetes!
   MicroK8s wraps the kubectl command familiar to Kubernetes users, so you can simply perform any usual Kubernetes operation. Try:

   microk8s kubectl get all --all-namespaces
   

7. Access the Kubernetes dashboard using the dashboard-proxy command:

   microk8s dashboard-proxy
   

   

   Open a browser, go to the URL shown in the output and use the token to log in to the dashboard:

   

8. Start and stop Kubernetes

   Kubernetes services are always running in the background consuming power and resources. When not using MicroK8s, use the following command to stop the Kubernetes services:

   microk8s stop
   

   To start the services, you can use:

   microk8s start
   

What next?

• Want to experiment with alpha releases of Kubernetes? See the documentation on setting channels.
• Need to tweak the Kubernetes configuration? Find out how to configure the Kubernetes services.
• Having problems? Check out our troubleshooting section.
• Love MicroK8s? Want to contribute or suggest a feature? Give us your feedback.