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Open Command Prompt and then type minikube start , as shown in the following screenshot:

minikube downloads the Linux VM image and then sets up Kubernetes on the Linux VM; now if you open VirtualBox, you can see that the minikube guest has been registered, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Wait for a few minutes to complete the setup of the Kubernetes cluster.
As per the following screenshot, type kubectl version to check the Kubernetes master version.
Use the kubectl get nodes command to check ...

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