Calico Networking

Minikube offers a built-in Calico implementation, this is a quick way to checkout Calico features.

minikube start --network-plugin=cni --cni=calico

You can verify Calico installation in your cluster by issuing the following command.

watch kubectl get pods -l k8s-app=calico-node -A

Use ctrl+c to break out of watch.

Congratulations you now have a minikube cluster equipped with Calico

minikube node add

Verify nodes using the following command

minikube node list

minikube addons enable metrics-server

Ensure your Master Node is in Healthy State and all the necessary services and pods are working fine.

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