In this article, we will see How to start and stop minikube on Linux step by step.
minikube is a tool that lets you run Kubernetes locally. minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster on your personal computer (including Windows, macOS and Linux PCs) so that you can try out Kubernetes, or for daily development work.
In this article, we will see how to pause, unpause, status, stop and start the minikube on Linux each with examples.
1. Check the minikube status:
minikube status
It is stopped.
2. Lets the minikube on Linux by running below command.
minikube start
3. Pause Kubernetes without impacting deployed applications:
minikube pause
4. Unpause a paused instance:
minikube unpause
5. Get list of addons on Kubernetes
minikube addons list
|-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------| | ADDON NAME | PROFILE | STATUS | MAINTAINER | |-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------| | ambassador | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Ambassador) | | auto-pause | minikube | disabled | Google | | cloud-spanner | minikube | disabled | Google | | csi-hostpath-driver | minikube | disabled | Kubernetes | | dashboard | minikube | disabled | Kubernetes | | default-storageclass | minikube | enabled ✅ | Kubernetes | | efk | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Elastic) | | freshpod | minikube | disabled | Google | | gcp-auth | minikube | disabled | Google | | gvisor | minikube | disabled | Google | | headlamp | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (kinvolk.io) | | helm-tiller | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Helm) | | inaccel | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (InAccel | | | | | [info@inaccel.com]) | | ingress | minikube | disabled | Kubernetes | | ingress-dns | minikube | disabled | Google | | istio | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Istio) | | istio-provisioner | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Istio) | | kong | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Kong HQ) | | kubevirt | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (KubeVirt) | | logviewer | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (unknown) | | metallb | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (MetalLB) | | metrics-server | minikube | disabled | Kubernetes | | nvidia-driver-installer | minikube | disabled | Google | | nvidia-gpu-device-plugin | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Nvidia) | | olm | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Operator Framework) | | pod-security-policy | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (unknown) | | portainer | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Portainer.io) | | registry | minikube | disabled | Google | | registry-aliases | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (unknown) | | registry-creds | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (UPMC Enterprises) | | storage-provisioner | minikube | enabled ✅ | Google | | storage-provisioner-gluster | minikube | disabled | 3rd party (Gluster) | | volumesnapshots | minikube | disabled | Kubernetes | |-----------------------------|----------|--------------|--------------------------------|
Watch the below video for the same above steps: