14 engineers on Hacker News describe using Minikube first-hand: 6 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“Minikube to run things locally. Using Docker K8s as Minikube didn't work well on my Mac M1”
regret · production · brabel · 2022-12-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched from minikube to microk8s for local development at work. We found minikube to be bloated and (at least at early releases) sometimes the vm just broke”
regret · production · _paul21 · 2022-05-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“DO NOT put minikube in prod. I'm watching this happen in real time at the current gig.”
regret · production · dvtrn · 2022-05-25 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Minikube is my goto environment whenever I have to put together an app that consists of more than a single process.”
endorse · personal · hodgesrm · 2021-12-19 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Minikube can be a resource hog, but still workable if you make your resource allocations configurable”
mixed · personal · theptip · 2019-01-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I use "minikube" for developing and testing each service locally.”
endorse · production · Rotareti · 2018-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Minikube is really nice to use, and everything seems to work well”
endorse · personal · thomasahle · 2017-12-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We use minikube with the ingress addon to help us fit some moderately complex constellations of servers onto our laptops”
endorse · personal · yebyen · 2017-11-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Building with Docker for Mac is great, and Minikube seems really promising.”
endorse · personal · atombender · 2017-04-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“minikube runs a cluster where I can actually scale my apps up and down and test out distributed software on my laptop”
endorse · personal · mr_luc · 2016-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?“the only problems I have to deal with are minikube problems (which I had to deal with under VirtualBox as well)”
neutral · production · ranger207 · 2023-08-05 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've started using minikube myself as I stopped constantly needing to use Cisco AnyConnect for work”
neutral · personal · snuxoll · 2022-01-28 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we've got to bootstrap minukube and seed configuration and data to uninteresting dependencies somehow.”
neutral · personal · xmodem · 2020-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Right now, minikube supports rkt and docker.”
neutral · personal · rckrd · 2016-12-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?