Docker Desktop To Kubernetes with Minikube + Skaffold
I’ve decided move my all docker dependencies in project move to another alternatives after the docker’s desktop app license policy. First I’ve tried to Podman and Podman Machine. It’s good and very similar with docker commands but the issue is docker-compose files. I’ve realesed to minikube contains a docker server inside. And it works with docker-compose (you should mount your project folder). I want to explain step by step for Mac OSX environment.
Let’s install docker-client, kubectl and minikube via home-brew.
brew install docker docker-compose minikube kubectl hyperkit
Check Docker Version
❯ docker info
Client:
Context: default
Debug Mode: false
Server:
ERROR: Cannot connect to the Docker daemon at unix:///var/run/docker.sock. Is the docker daemon running?
errors pretty printing info
Check Hyperkit Version
❯ hyperkit -v
hyperkit: 0.20200908
Homepage: https://github.com/docker/hyperkit
License: BSD
Start Minikube
Minikube Resources Config (optional)
minikube config set cpus 6
minikube config set memory 12g
Minikube Mount Dev Folder Config (optional)
minikube mount /opt:/opt
Minikube Start
minikube start --driver=hyperkit --container-runtime=docker
Your environment almost ready. You can setup your docker environment like below command.
eval $(minikube docker-env)
Check Docker
❯ docker ps
Also docker-compose can work with that setup. But if you want you can use skaffold instead of docker-compose.
Alternative Docker Compose
brew install skaffold
skaffold init --compose-file docker-compose.yml