gcb.md

minikube on Google Cloud Build

This is to run minikube on Google Cloud Build. Basically starting from Ubuntu image, We first install minikube, then install docker, In the end, start minikube with none driver.

Example cloudbuild.yml

The following cloud build config can be used by running

gcloud builds submit --config cloudbuild.yml --no-source

and will:

• download current version of kubectl
• download linux amd64 binary of minikube
• download and install docker
• run minikube to create a cluster

Examples can be found in the following cloudbuild.yml.

steps:
- name: 'gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker'
  entrypoint: 'bash'
  args:
    - -c
    - |
      docker build -t minikube-kic .
- name: gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker
  entrypoint: 'bash'
  args:
    - -c
    - |
       docker run -d -t --privileged --name minikube minikube-kic:latest
- name: gcr.io/cloud-builders/docker
  entrypoint: 'bash'
  args:
    - -c
    - |
       docker exec minikube /bin/bash -c "minikube start --force && kubectl get pods -A"
options:
  machineType: N1_HIGHCPU_8