Running fabric8 in Minikube

What I learned today — 20 February 2018

1 min readFeb 20, 2018

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In this post I’ll describe how to get fabric8 up and running in Minikube. These instructions apply to fabric8 v0.4.176 and expand the official getStarted documentation.

`gofabric8`

gofabric8 is the CLI tool for interacting with fabric8. Install it with:

curl -sS https://get.fabric8.io/download.txt | bash

add the binary to your $PATH so you can execute it:

echo 'export PATH=$PATH:~/.fabric8/bin' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc

Minikube

Next, I’ll give some more detailed instructions to deploy fabric8 on Minikube.

# Launch Minikube
minikube start --disk-size=60g --memory=8000# Enable ingress
minikube addons enable ingress

GitHub OAuth App

Next, set up a GitHub OAuth App. Follow the official instructions, but with the following exceptions:

First, get your Minikube IP address. Run minikube ip.

Replace the IP address in the “Authorization callback URL”:

http://keycloak.fabric8.192.168.99.100.nip.io/auth/realms/fabric8/broker/github/endpoint

Note, in the above keycloak-fabric8 was replaced with keycloak.fabric8. This corresponds to the ingress that will be created in the next step.

Likewise, the “homepage URL” is:

http://fabric8.fabric8.192.168.99.100.nip.io

Once you have created the OAuth application for fabric8 in your github settings and found your client ID and secret then set the env vars below replacing the values:

export GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=123
export GITHUB_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=123abc

In case you’re wondering, this setup relies on NIP.IO

Deploy fabric8

gofabric8 start --package=system  --namespace fabric8