Minikube

As light-4j API/service is aiming to deployed with Docker containers and Kubernetes is the most popular container orchestration tool, it is very hard to set up multiple nodes cluster in a laptop development environment. However, there is a minikube can be used on laptop to create one node cluster on your laptop.

Install on Mac.

Install xhype

Before installing Minikube, you must install xhype driver first. The detailed instructions are in the above link and here is the commands to be executed.

brew install docker-machine-driver-xhyve
sudo chown root:wheel $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve
sudo chmod u+s $(brew --prefix)/opt/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/bin/docker-machine-driver-xhyve

Install minikube

The general installation guide is in README and the latest instruction is always specific for the latest release. The current release instruction can be found here

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v0.17.1/minikube-darwin-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo mv minikube /usr/local/bin/

Install kubectl

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

Start minikube

minikube start

Install on Linux