With the Kubernetes daemon (installed and ran by minikube) and the Kubernetes client (kubectl) installed, we can now run minikube start to create and start our cluster. We'd need to pass in --vm-driver=none as we are not using a VM.
If you are using a VM, remember to use the correct --vm-driver flag.
We need to run the minikube start command as root because the kubeadm and kubelet binaries need to be downloaded and moved to /usr/local/bin, which requires root privileges.
However, this usually means that all the files created and written during the installation and initiation process will be owned by root. This makes it hard for a normal user to modify configuration files.
Fortunately, Kubernetes provides several environment ...
