Install Minikube on Windows

6 min

This guide covers installing kubectl and Minikube on Windows to create a local Kubernetes environment.


Step 1: Installing and configuring kubectl on Windows

Installing kubectl on Windows

This section explains how to install and configure kubectl on Windows, the essential command-line tool to interact with Kubernetes clusters.

For more details, see the official documentation.

1.1. Downloading kubectl

To start, we need to create a dedicated folder for kubectl:

powershell
mkdir C:\Users\hrehouma\Documents\kubectl
cd C:\Users\hrehouma\Documents\kubectl

Replace hrehouma with your username (command whoami).

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