Running Kubernetes locally isn’t really trivial. I feel like this makes a clicky clicky install a lot more possible and opens the doors to more people. And that’s what Docker’s been good at since day one, democratizing otherwise esoteric technologies.

This is a replacement for minikube, i.e. a local dev k8s cluster.

If you need to experiment with k8s locally it's pretty easy to install Kubernetes in one or 2 VMs on your laptop with kubeadm but then you need to install Docker inside this VM. Minikube is also installing another Docker daemon inside their own VM.

Because I already have Docker for Mac installed to be able to build and test images I think it's useful to have this local k8s integration.

A use case would be for Devops to be able to just point developers to a simple and documented method of running this environment in development without having to invest the time into creating and maintaining it themselves or expect the developers to invest into the operations aspects.

I don’t get it either. minikube is trivially installed in my experience with homebrew.

Given that running docker on a Mac has been a long and bumpy journey, I’m not sure I’d want to bundle the two together.

What am I missing?