## Minikube Setup

`minikube start`: 

* Downloads a Virtualbox VM ISO for `minikube`
* Starts a VM
* Runs a local Kubernetes cluster using this VM.

## Initial Setup

`kubectl cluster-info`: Check that kubectl is properly configured.

```
Kubernetes master is running at https://192.168.99.100:8443

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.
```

`kubectl run hello-world --replicas=2 --labels="run=load-balancer-example" --image=gcr.io/google-samples/node-hello:1.0  --port=8080`
Runs a Dockerized `hello-world` service with 2 replicas.

## Getting Information

* `kubernetes get`: List all `get` commands.
* `kubernetes describe`: List all `describe` commands.
* `kubectl get services`: Get list of services running in cluster
* `kubectl get deployments`: Get summarized current state and desired state of replicas of deployments.
* `kubectl describe deployments [DEPLOYMENT_NAME]` Get details of all deployments, or optionally one deployment named `DEPLOYMENT_NAME`.
* `kubectl describe hpa`: Describe the `HorizontalPodAutoscaler` objects.

## Scaling

* `kubectl scale --replicas=2 deployments/hello-minikube`: Scale a deployment named `hello-minikube` to 2 replicas.
* `kubectl autoscale deployment foo --min=2 --max=5 --cpu-percent=80`: Create an Horizontal Pod Autoscaler that automatically scales the deployment between 2 and 5 replicas when CPU utilization exceeds 80%.

## Heapster (and other Minikube Addons)

* `minikube addons enable heapster`: Enable Heapster within Minikube (it's disabled by default)
* `minikube addons open dashboard`: Open the Kubernetes Dashboard (opens in a browser window).
* `minikube addons open heapster`: Open the Heapster Dashboard (opens Grafana in a browser window).