Setting Up minikube GUI

Overview

  • This guide will show you how to setup the minikube GUI
  • WARNING! This GUI is a prototype and therefore may be unstable or contain bugs. Please use at your own risk, we are not responsible for damages.
  • If you experience any bugs or have suggestions to improve the GUI feel free to create a GitHub Issue.
  • Please note that the SSH functionality currently only works on Linux.

Before You Begin

  • minikube setup and available on your path, follow the Getting Start doc if not already done

Steps

    1. Download the zipped folder
    curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube-gui/nightly/minikube-gui-mac.zip
    1. Unzip
    unzip minikube-gui-mac.zip
    1. Open the application
    open dist/minikube.app
    1. If you see the following, click cancel.

    Mac unverified developer

    1. Open System Preferences and go to Security & Privacy -> General and click “Open Anyway”.
    1. Download the zipped folder via PowerShell (below) or via your browser (faster)
    Invoke-WebRequest -Uri 'https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube-gui/nightly/minikube-gui-windows.zip' -UseBasicParsing
    1. Unzip
    Expand-Archive minikube-gui-windows.zip
    1. Open the application
    .\minikube-gui-windows\dist\minikube.exe
    1. If you see the following, click More info and then Run anyway

    Windows unreconized app

    1. Download the zipped folder
    curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube-gui/nightly/minikube-gui-linux.zip
    1. Unzip
    unzip minikube-gui-linux.zip
    1. Open the application
    dist/minikube

    Last modified December 9, 2022: Update setup_minikube_gui.md (559953ba6)