How to transfer files between local machine and minikube?

Question

I am using OS Ubuntu 16.0.4 and i installed minikube on it. I need to copy some files to minikube, so how can i do that? I tried next command but it asked me on password and i d

Answer 1

On the host machine you can use the ssh-key and ip subcommands of the minikube command:

scp -i $(minikube ssh-key)  docker@$(minikube ip):

So the command from the question becomes:

scp -i $(minikube ssh-key) /media/myuser/sourceFolder docker@$(minikube ip):/home/docker/destiationFolder