Minikube setup

The following steps will describe how to setup minikube using the ska-cicd-minikube-deploy project.

  1. Clone the repository from gitlab

https://gitlab.com/ska-telescope/sdi/ska-cicd-deploy-minikube.git

  1. Initialize the git submodules

git submodule init
git submodule update

  1. Create new minikube cluster

make minikube-install CPUS=4 DRIVER=docker

optionally you may include the following paramaters

Param

Desc

CPUS

How many cpus the cluster should use

MEM

How much memory the cluster should use

PROFILE

The name of the profile to create

  1. Docker version bug fix

  • In the current version of ska-cicd-minikube-deploy the docker version that gets installed with minikube is to high for use with the ska-tango pytango images and needs to be downgraded.

  • Perform the following to downgrade the docker version in the minikube container

    A. Get the container ID where the container is named after the minikube profile (minikube by default)

    docker container ls

    B. Enter the container using the following

    docker exec -it <container id> /bin/bash

    C. Copy / paste and run the following to downgrade the docker version to 24.0.7

    apt-get update && VERSION_STRING=5:24.0.7-1~ubuntu.22.04~jammy && apt-get install -y --allow-downgrades docker-ce=$VERSION_STRING docker-ce-cli=$VERSION_STRING containerd.io docker-buildx-plugin docker-compose-plugin && sleep 5 && systemctl restart docker && sleep 5 && systemctl restart docker

    D. Exit the container

    exit

    E. Switch to your minikube profile and start minikube again as the API will have stopped running:

    minikube profile <profile name> && minikube start