I like Minikube and it was a read godsend when I was trying to learn Kubernetes. It just "worked" and I was able to play around with deployments and whatnot. A

I like Minikube and it was a read godsend when I was trying to learn Kubernetes. It just "worked" and I was able to play around with deployments and whatnot. After a while, I really found it limiting. Especially when I wanted to get into the internals of K8s. I then started to spin up VMs in VirtualBox and deployed bare metal K8s using Ansible and tutorials like this - https://www.tecmint.com/install-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos-7/ https://www.tecmint.com/install-kubernetes-cluster-on-centos... Creating a 2 node cluster was super helpful to understand how K8s worked. I was able to get onto the nodes themselves and see what was going on. It was an amazing journey. Adding MetalLB to the mix really was the cherry on top. Allowed me to play around with ingress controllers. So while I really do appreciate Minikube for what it is, it just doesn't go the distance when you want to dig in deep.