WSL2 | Docker | Minikube instalation

WSL2

First of all you should deactivate Hyper-V service and activate WSL2 service into your windows system. Use PowerShell in admin mode:

Disable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V-Hypervisor
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Windows-Subsystem-Linux

Or just do it like this:

Programms and components

Next go to cmd console, update WSL up to 2-nd version and use some commands for instalation Linux system on WSL2:

wsl --status
wsl --update
wsl --set-default-version 2
wsl --list --verbose
wsl --list --online
wsl --install -d Ubuntu-20.04			# wsl --unregister Ubuntu-20.04 (delete)
wsl --set-default Ubuntu-20.04

Official Microsoft mans:

Hyper-V disable | WSL Enabled | WSL manual | WSL basic comands

Now Ubuntu-20.04 installed on your WSL2 service.

Docker

Start bash in linux you’ve just installed and tune the system first. After you should work with apt-get to clean the old packets (just in case), install some utility packets and get new packets from docker repo.

sudo apt-get remove docker docker-engine docker.io containerd runc
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl gnupg2 software-properties-common
curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo apt-key add -
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -y install docker-ce
docker version
sudo usermod -aG docker $USER
sudo service docker start
service --status-all
update-rc.d services defaults  			# update-rc.d -f service remove
source ~/.bashrc 				# || exit ?
docker run --rm hello-world

Docker official man

Make sure that console shows you correct info about docker version, docker-service status and the container named hello-world run successfully.

Minikube

Now we can download latest build for your system and install minikube. Check the Minikube official man first and type something like that:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64
sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube
minikube version
minikube start

Make sure that Minikube has latest version and runs correctly.

Then you can install and tune kubectl manualy or get it from minikube dirrectly:

minikube kubectl -- get po -A
minikube kubectl version

Optional

You can use you favorite text editor or CLI and do some optimizations:

nano ~/.bashrc
+alias d='docker'
+alias k='minikube kubectl --'
source ~/.bashrc

echo -e "alias d='docker'\nalias k='minikube kubectl --'" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Install ssh, git, helm, ansible and so on to be a cool computer guy.

WSL2, Docker and Minikube installed on local machine for your experiments !

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