Installing Minikube and Hyperkit

bye bye Virtualbox

Published: Oct 25, 2019 by martoc

I’ve got some problems with Minikube and Virtualbox, everytime I close my laptop it stops working and I need to restart, delete, start, reboot, etc. it’s not very stable for this use case. I’ve installed the HyperKit driver and configured Minikube to use this instead the default Virtualbox.

Steps

First, install the HyperKit driver (https://github.com/moby/hyperkit)

brew install hyperkit

For more information about Homebrew please visit https://brew.sh/

If you don’t have Minikube installed yet

brew cask install minikube

Configure Minikube to use the HyperKit driver by default

minikube config set vm-driver hyperkit

If you don’t want to configure this as the default driver you can run Minikube setting the drive like this

minikube start --vm-driver=hyperkit

If you were running Virtualbox before like me wipe out your ~/.minikube and cluster configuration

minikube delete
rm -rf ~/.minikube

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