Minikube

Administrative privileges are required to run minikube.
To enable the Secret Discovery Service (SDS) for your mesh, you must add to your Kubernetes deployment. Refer to the api-server reference docs for the most up-to-date flags.

Installation steps

Install the latest version of minikube and a .
Start minikube with 16384 MB of memory and 4 CPUs. This example uses Kubernetes version 1.20.2. You can change the version to any Kubernetes version supported by Istio by altering the value:
```
$ minikube start --memory=16384 --cpus=4 --kubernetes-version=v1.20.2
```
Depending on the hypervisor you use and the platform on which the hypervisor is run, minimum memory requirements vary. 16384 MB is sufficent to run Istio and bookinfo.
- image pull failures
- healthcheck timeout failures
- kubectl failures on the host
- complete lock-up of the virtual machine
- host NMI watchdog reboots
One effective way to monitor memory usage in minikube is to into the minikube virtual machine and from that prompt run the top command:
```
$ top
GiB Mem : 12.4/15.7
```
This shows 12.4GiB used of an available 15.7 GiB RAM within the virtual machine. This data was generated with the VMWare Fusion hypervisor on a Macbook Pro 13” with 16GiB RAM running Istio 1.2 with bookinfo installed.
(Optional, recommended) If you want minikube to provide a load balancer for use by Istio, you can use the minikube tunnel feature. Run this command in a different terminal, because the minikube tunnel feature will block your terminal to output diagnostic information about the network: