Minikube v1.2.0
Minikube is still under active development, and features may change at any time. Release notes are available here.
Distribution
Minikube is distributed in binary form for Linux, OSX, and Windows systems for the v1.2.0 release. Please note that Windows support is currently experimental and may have issues. Binaries are available through GitHub or on Google Cloud Storage. The direct GCS links are:
Darwin/amd64
Linux/amd64
Windows/amd64
Installation
OSX
curl -Lo minikube [https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.2.0/minikube-darwin-amd64](https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.2.0/minikube-darwin-amd64) && chmod +x minikube && sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube
Feel free to leave off sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube if you would like to add minikube to your path manually.
Or you can install via homebrew with brew cask install minikube.
Linux
curl -Lo minikube [https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.2.0/minikube-linux-amd64](https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.2.0/minikube-linux-amd64) && chmod +x minikube && sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube
Feel free to leave off sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube if you would like to add minikube to your path manually.
Debian Package (.deb) [Experimental]
Download the minikube_1.2.0.deb file, and install it using sudo dpkg -i minikube_1.2.0.deb
RPM Package (.rpm) [Experimental]
Download the minikube-1.2.0.rpm file, and install it using sudo rpm -i minikube-1.2.0.rpm
Windows [Experimental]
Download the minikube-windows-amd64.exe file, rename it to minikube.exe and add it to your path.
Windows Installer [Experimental]
Download the minikube-installer.exe file, and execute the installer. This will automatically add minikube.exe to your path with an uninstaller available as well.
Usage
Documentation is available here.
Checksums
Minikube consists of a binary executable and a VM image in ISO format. To verify the contents of your distribution, you can compare sha256 hashes with these values:
$ tail -n +1 -- out/*.sha256
==> out/minikube-darwin-amd64.sha256 <==
183d017d094b7783c938dc709dbdfc9a48f92299178234f89047dfbb083a592c
==> out/minikube-linux-amd64.sha256 <==
123fc9f5656333fb2927cf91666a91cd5b28ef97503418ac2a90a2109e518ed9
==> out/minikube-windows-amd64.exe.sha256 <==
f6c30cb88ec61bc6fe17532a3ef56e4f1fcef2473e3d73fc56f352b44784490d
ISO
$ openssl sha256 minikube.iso
SHA256(minikube.iso)=
ce7106ba22f5e6afc10595c5eac899780952ca402ba62fbeda0519283901b75c