start

• Start a new cluster
• Exposes apiserver on port 8443

minikube start

memory

minikube start --memory "4096" # megabytes by default
minikube start --memory "4096m"
minikube start --memory "4g"

driver

• If not specified, auto detects

# qemu
minikube start --driver qemu2

# docker
minikube start --driver docker

# ssh
minikube start --driver ssh

# podman (rootful)
podman machine init --rootful
minikube start --driver podman --container-runtime cri-o

# podman (rootless)
podman machine init

• Qemu driver: https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/drivers/qemu/

network

# builtin network
minikube start --driver qemu --network builtin