Release announcement for Minishift 1.26.0
by Anjan Nath
Hi all,
The Minishift team is pleased to announce the release of Minishift 1.26.0.
Minishift [1] is a command-line tool that provisions and manages a single-node
OpenShift cluster. You can run Minishift on GNU/Linux, Microsoft
Windows, or macOS.
In version 1.26.0, we added new features, enhancements, and bug fixes including:
- Updated default OpenShift version from 3.10 to 3.11
- Ability to set minishift VM timezone at start and also using the
timezone command [7]
- minishift start --timezone “Asia/Kolkata”
- minishift timezone --set “Asia/Kolkata”
- Minishift now honours the KUBECONFIG environment variable [6]
You can find a detailed list of issues in the release notes [2].
For information about getting started, using, and developing Minishift,
see the documentation [3].
Please try the new release. The easiest upgrade path is by simply running:
$ minishift update
We are looking forward to your feedback.
The Minishift community [4] hangs out in the #minishift channel on Freenode
and it is the perfect place to discuss anything Minishift related.
You can sign up for our mailing list [5] to receive development updates,
ask questions about Minishift, suggest ideas, and talk to the community.
[1] https://github.com/minishift/minishift
[2] https://github.com/minishift/minishift/releases/tag/v1.26.0
[3] https://docs.openshift.org/latest/minishift/index.html
[4] https://github.com/minishift/minishift#community
[5] https://lists.minishift.io/admin/lists/minishift.lists.minishift.io
[6] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OxmRsswvQ0
[7] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7WDu9wXvIk
4 years, 5 months
Pod Count
by Burr Sutter
I notice that "out-of-the-box" we seem to be running 11 pods with Openshift
3.10 via Minishift 1.25
With the 10 pod per core limit, this gives very little room for the
end-user to launch their own pods. When you bring in Istio, it gets even
more limited.
oc get pods --all-namespaces
NAMESPACE NAME
READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE
default docker-registry-1-cztks
1/1 Running 0 4m
default persistent-volume-setup-ppzv2
0/1 Completed 0 4m
default router-1-zk284
1/1 Running 0 4m
kube-dns kube-dns-pr5pj
1/1 Running 0 4m
kube-proxy kube-proxy-mt6b9
1/1 Running 0 4m
kube-system kube-controller-manager-localhost
1/1 Running 0 4m
kube-system kube-scheduler-localhost
1/1 Running 0 4m
kube-system master-api-localhost
1/1 Running 1 3m
kube-system master-etcd-localhost
1/1 Running 0 3m
openshift-apiserver openshift-apiserver-bwlbj
1/1 Running 0 4m
openshift-controller-manager openshift-controller-manager-pp7nz
1/1 Running 0 4m
openshift-core-operators
openshift-web-console-operator-8cf4ddf7-9rghj 1/1 Running 0
4m
openshift-web-console webconsole-85f96dd597-72n27
1/1 Running 0 3m
4 years, 5 months
minishift "longevity"
by Burr Sutter
This is unrelated to the "minshift won't start in Mexico" issue :-)
I use the pattern of
- create the VM
- setup my demos
- minishift stop
- close laptop
- travel
- open laptop
- minishift start
and every now and then, I forget to minishift stop, just close the laptop.
and I do notice a "decay" after some number of days. Normally this decay
shows itself as too much CPU usage by the minishift VM (virtual box).
Basically Virtualbox consumes so much CPU that it makes the overall laptop
sluggish and even when I am just running slides :-)
How many days do you think a minishift might survive this kind of
treatment? What do we test for?
4 years, 5 months
minishift fails to start...on some networks
by Burr Sutter
it seems that minishift has internet requirements that are unique
What are they?
What IP addresses is it reaching out to?
What protocols/ports need to be available?
My current "conference wifi" is fast performing (speedtest.net) but
minishift could never start. I had to switch to my mobile phone's network.
4 years, 5 months
how to recover from
by Burr Sutter
Cannot get the OpenShift master configuration: ssh command error:
command : docker exec -t cat /etc/origin/master/master-config.yaml
err : exit status 1
output : Error response from daemon: No such container: cat
4 years, 5 months
minishift addon enable admin-user
by Burr Sutter
Seems like enable admin-user in 1.24 no longer works, is that expected?
my startup routine:
minishift profile set 9steps124
minishift config set memory 6144
minishift config set cpus 2
minishift config set vm-driver virtualbox #hyperkit
minishift config set image-caching true
minishift addon enable admin-user
minishift addon enable anyuid
minishift start
and the workaround is to add
minishift addons apply admin-user
4 years, 5 months
