How to migrate kubeconfig on windows 10

Question

I have been trying to install minikube for two days now. I have run into issue after issue. This one has me stumped.

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Answer 1

As you are able to see kubeadm version it suggest that you used Kubernetes kubeadm, which is bit different from Minikube.

Kubeadm is a tool to get Kubernetes working on existing machine. It will configure and start all required Kubernetes components. Using Kubeadm you are able to create cluster with multiple nodes (kubeadm join).

Minikube is a tool which start single Kubernets Cluster local node.

There is already good explanation in this Stackoverflow question.

I don't think that Kubeadm configuration from Linux will work on Windows. As you mentioned in comment, that you want to run Minikube in windows to learn Kubernetes, I will provide step by step how to run Minikube on Windows 10.

Installation Minikube on Windows 10

As you already have docker I will skip that installation steps.

1. Download kubectl and minikube.

Newest version is provided in official kubernetes docs.

kubectl v1.17 and minikube from github (minikube-windows-amd64.exe).

2. Add to PATH form folder to Environment Variables.

Create folder where you will paste kubectl.exe and renamed minikube.exe file. Add This folder to PATH. (If someone would need here is tutorial).

3. Create external Virtual Switch Manager in Hyper-V.

Go to Hyper-V. From the right menu choose Virtual Switch Manager. Choose External and name it Primary Virtual Switch. Then apply.

4. Verify minikube and kubeadm versions.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"17", GitVersion:"v1.17.0", GitCommit:"70132b0f130acc0bed193d9ba59dd186f0e634cf", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-12-07T21:20:10Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"windows/amd64"}​
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"17", GitVersion:"v1.17.0", GitCommit:"70132b0f130acc0bed193d9ba59dd186f0e634cf", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2019-12-07T21:12:17Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.4", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}​
PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> minikube version​
minikube version: v1.6.2​
commit: 54f28ac5d3a815d1196cd5d57d707439ee4bb392

5. Create Minikube Cluster.

Run PowerShell as Administrator.

minikube start --vm-driver hyperv --hyperv-virtual-switch "Primary Virtual Switch"

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> minikube start --vm-driver hyperv --hyperv-virtual-switch "Primary Virtual Switch"
* minikube v1.6.2 on Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise 10.0.17134 Build 17134​
* Selecting 'hyperv' driver from user configuration (alternates: [])​
* Creating hyperv VM (CPUs=2, Memory=2000MB, Disk=20000MB) ...​
* Preparing Kubernetes v1.17.0 on Docker '19.03.5' ...​
* Pulling images ...​
* Launching Kubernetes ...​
* Waiting for cluster to come online ...​
* Done! kubectl is now configured to use "minikube"​

Now you can use kubectl commands and already have default resources required for running Minikube.

PS C:\WINDOWS\system32> kubectl get pods --all-namespaces​
NAMESPACE     NAME                               READY   STATUS    RESTARTS   AGE​
kube-system   coredns-6955765f44-c4cbj           1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   coredns-6955765f44-rqfth           1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   etcd-minikube                      1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   kube-addon-manager-minikube        1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   kube-apiserver-minikube            1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   kube-controller-manager-minikube   1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   kube-proxy-j6q29                   1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   kube-scheduler-minikube            1/1     Running   0          31m​
kube-system   storage-provisioner                1/1     Running   0          31m

In addition, you can check this article about running Minikube on windows.

Also you can consider Docker for Windows which will do many things automatically, however it will install older version of kubernetes (1.14 at the moment).