minikube with the Docker Driver on Ubuntu: A Practical Local Cluster

Short summary

A practical guide to running minikube with the Docker driver on Ubuntu, covering installation, sizing, addons (ingress, metrics-server, dashboard, registry), and the docker-env trick for building images directly into the cluster. Compares minikube to kind: kind is lighter and better for CI, while minikube's addons and interactive features suit local development. Neither tool reflects production node runtimes, so production debugging should happen elsewhere.

• •Install and configure minikube with --driver=docker on Ubuntu, including CPU/memory sizing
• •Enable addons like ingress, metrics-server, and registry; use docker-env to build images directly into the cluster
• •minikube is heavier but richer for interactive dev; kind is lighter and better for CI throwaways

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