merusso

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by merusso 5y ago
This article should do a better job of explaining how Minikube is a "drop-in replacement for Docker Desktop". After installing Minikube, you won't just be able to run `docker` commands (`docker build`, `docker run`, etc.) on
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by merusso 5y ago
The author doesn't point this out well, but Minikube allows you to pretty easily expose a remote Docker host to be used for `docker build` and other Docker API commands. The command is `minikube docker-env`, which defines env vars that
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by merusso 5y ago
Docker Desktop provides an easy way to run `docker` commands from a non-Linux host, taking care of the VM management under the covers. It simplifies a lot of concerns so Docker "just works" on a non-Linux host.
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by merusso 5y ago
I think the author was speaking generally about Minikube, not specifically as a Docker Desktop replacement here. Minikube can also be installed on Linux and doesn't require a VM in that environment. On Mac and Windows, it does of cours
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by merusso 5y ago
Assuming you've installed Minikube and separately downloaded the Docker CLI client, you start up Minikube, set up the Docker environment using `minikube docker-env`, and run `docker` commands as usual. This configures the Docker client
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by merusso 5y ago
I believe the point of this article was to point out alternatives to Docker Desktop -- that is, Docker solutions that run on Windows and Mac hosts. The point wasn't to highlight alternative k8s distributions.
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by merusso 5y ago
There is special setup required. The docker daemon won't be running on /var/run/docker.sock, needs to point to a network port where the remote host is exposed (ex: tcp:///172.21.108.0:2376). Aside from sta