$ brew cask install minishift
Minishift requires a hypervisor to start the virtual machine on which the OpenShift cluster is provisioned. Verify that the hypervisor of your choice is installed and enabled on your system before you start Minishift.
Depending on your host operating system, you have the choice of the following hypervisors:
xhyve (default)
xhyve requires specific installation and configuration steps that are described in the Setting Up the Driver Plug-in section. |
KVM (default)
KVM requires specific installation and configuration steps that are described in the Setting Up the Driver Plug-in section. |
Hyper-V (default)
To use Minishift with Hyper-V ensure that, after you install Hyper-V, you also add a Virtual Switch using the Hyper-V Manager and set the environment variable |
It is recommended to use VirtualBox 5.1.12 or later on Windows to avoid the issue Error: machine does not exist. If you encounter issues related to the hypervisor, see the Troubleshooting Driver Plug-ins section. |
Download the archive for your operating system from the Minishift releases page and unpack it.
Copy the contents of the directory to your preferred location.
Add the minishift binary to your PATH
environment variable.
On the Windows operating system, due to issue #236, you need to execute the Minishift binary from your local C:\ drive. You cannot run Minishift from a network drive. |
Minishift will use any SSH binary found on the |
On macOS you can also use Homebrew Cask to install the stable version of Minishift:
$ brew cask install minishift
To update the binary, run following command:
$ brew cask install --force minishift