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Comment by mc4ndr3 | Hacker News Reader

minikube is the best kept secret in the container industry. Use minikube to match closer to prod on your local development machine.

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Yes and being decoupled from Docker Machine is super underestimated in the community IMHO. I switched seamlessly between VirtualBox based and Docker Machine based clusters in no time when Docker went rogue with their licensing.

EDIT: we're talking dev environments only. Not prod. DO NOT put minikube in prod.

DO NOT put minikube in prod.

I'm watching this happen in real time at the current gig. I brought up my concerns to the senior in charge of this. He's doing it anyway.

Let you know how that goes.

What are the concerns? I keep hearing the same "don't use it in prod" about docker, yet I know quite a few (small-ish) operations successfully running on it.

Hm, never heard against Docker in cloud (since early times of Docker). Only about keeping your database in Docker -- yes, that was arecommentadion some 5+ years ago and maybe now as well.

Minikube isn’t intended to run production services. You’ll encounter a lot of constraints that don’t exist on a real cluster, and you’ll likely lose important data if you use it very long.

Docker made sense to use in production because people wanted to run containers.

What could possibly be the justification for running production workloads on minikube?

What do you mean by "best kept secret"?

It's secretly used in almost every kubernetes tutorial on the internet

Totally agree.

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