How to install (Openshift) Minishift in Ubuntu 18.04?

Steps to install Minishift in Ubuntu

Source: Redhat

I've come across to play with Openshift for work, and this is how I got Minishift running on my local system which is Ubuntu 18.04. For those who don’t know what Minishift is, it is a single-user version of OpenShift, with additional functionality needed by users developing on one system.

Please note that the following steps are carried out as the root user.

Prerequisites

Install libvirt and qemu-kvm on your system:

$ sudo apt install qemu-kvm libvirt-daemon libvirt-daemon-system

Add yourself to the libvirt(d) group:

$ sudo usermod -a -G libvirt $USER

Update your current session to apply the group change:

$ newgrp libvirt

As root, install the KVM driver binary and make it executable as follows:

$ curl -L https://github.com/dhiltgen/docker-machine-kvm/releases/download/v0.10.0/docker-machine-driver-kvm-ubuntu16.04 -o /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm$ chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-machine-driver-kvm

Download the latest version of minishift cdk from:

https://developers.redhat.com/products/cdk/download/

Copy the downloaded cdk-3.6.0–1-minishift-linux-amd64 file in to /usr/local/bin folder.

$ cp cdk-3.6.0–1-minishift-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin

Create a sim-link for minishift:

$ ln -sf cdk-3.6.0–1-minishift-linux-amd64 minishift

Initialize the installation

$ minishift setup-cdk

Run the minishift start command:

$ minishift start
-- Starting local OpenShift cluster using 'kvm' hypervisor...
...
   OpenShift server started.
   The server is accessible via web console at:
       https://192.168.99.128:8443   You are logged in as:
       User:     developer
       Password: developer   To login as administrator:
       oc login -u system:admin

The IP is dynamically generated for each OpenShift cluster. To check the IP, run the minishift ipcommand.

By default, Minishift uses the driver most relevant to the host OS. To use a different driver, set the --vm-driver flag in minishift start. For example, to use VirtualBox instead of KVM on Linux operating systems, run minishift start --vm-driver=virtualbox.

Use minishift oc-env to display the command you need to type into your shell in order to add the oc binary to your PATH environment variable. The output of oc-env will differ depending on OS and shell type.

$ minishift oc-env
$ eval $(minishift oc-env)