Installing minikube as a pre-requisite
minikube is a pre-requisite to provision Keycloak on Minikube. It needs to be installed before the installation can begin.
Installing minikube
The installation guide is available in the minikube installation guide.
Optional installation steps for minikube
Add the following snippet to the file ~/.bashrc to allow auto-completion of commands:
source <(minikube completion bash)The choice of Virtual Machine manger the user would install is probably dependent on the developer host Operating System. Below are the VM drivers which are tested and proven to be working without issue for the respective host OS.
Linux Host
KVM or Kernel-based Virtual Machine is a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions. To learn more about it and its relevance to minikube, you can read the docs.
Please take a note that the linux User needs to be added to the libvirt group using the below command.
sudo usermod -aG libvirt $USEROptionally you can use the below command to verify if the libvirt group exists and is updated with the user
The command:
getent group libvirtShould print an output like:
libvirt:x:981:johndoe