Minikube: kubectl not found on a mac

[dgdosen]

Hi all;

I'm trying to run minikube on a mac (with virtualbox), and while I have it installed and running, but when I try to run kubectl from the command line, I get a command not found: kubectl error.

I can see the new vm in VirtualBox running after I enter minikube start and can even open the dashboard.

What I cannot do is get kubectl to run.

I've also run eval $(minikube docker-env) - but still no kubectl.

Any ideas?

[sebgoa]

@dgdosen you need to install it separately

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.2.0/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
chmod +x kubectl

put it in your PATH somewhere

[aaron-prindle]

An alternative method for installing kubectl would be to install gcloud from the instructions on this link:
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstart-mac-os-x
And then running:
gcloud components install kubectl

[dgdosen]

Thanks for the quick feedback! I'll PR a change to the readme.

[dlorenc]

See #83 as well.

[jatins]

@aaron-prindle On macOS, where does gcloud components install kubectl install the kubectl executable?

[phs]

I came here because brew cask install minikube currently fails to also provide a kubectl. In that case you may want the CLI from brew:

brew install kubernetes-cli

[xMarkusSpringerx]

@phs brew install kubernetes-cli worked for me

[phs]

brew cask users should now pull in kubernetes-cli automatically.

[darkn3rd]

I tried gcloud components install kubectl, but it is not linked anywhere. It looks like it is an older version, 1.8.6. Homebrew currently has 1.10.2.

[ggtmtmgg]

If you tried gcloud components install kubectl and got command not found: kubectl error, you can solve it by linking like $ ln -s /usr/local/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/.