Prerequisites for Mac

You must have the following setup on your PC:

Podman
Minikube
Git

This requires a minimum of:

2 physical CPU cores
6 GB of free memory

For the MeshNetwork (Istio) Lab you need a minimum of:

4 physical CPU cores
9 GB of free memory

If Minikube is not an option you can use OpenShift Local or any other Kubernetes solution (but this is untested and you're on your own).

🚀 TASK: Install prerequisites on Mac

Install Homebrew
Follow the instructions 🌏 here to install Homebrew on your Mac.

Install CLI Tools

🌏 Detailed Documentation for the Task

brew install kubernetes-cli

Install Podman and Podman Desktop

🌏 Detailed Documentation for the Task

Download the App and install manually or

brew install --cask podman-desktop

Start Podman from the command line

export CONTAINERS_MACHINE_PROVIDER=applehv
podman machine init --cpus 4 --memory 6666
podman machine start

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If you get errors regarding 'krunkit' binary, make sure that you select the Apple Hypervisor as runtime.

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Start Podman from the Podman Desktop
- Open Podman Desktop
- Go to Settings
- Click Create New under Podman
- Make sure you select Apple Hypervisor under Provider type
- Hit Create

![K8s CNI](./../images/podman1.png)

Install Minikube

🌏 Detailed Documentation for the Task

Install Minikube

brew install minikube

Start Minikube

minikube start --driver=podman --container-runtime=containerd

or use the Podman Desktop.

Install some addons we will need later

minikube addons enable registry    
minikube addons enable ingress    
minikube addons enable dashboard    
minikube addons list|grep enabled

| dashboard                   | minikube | enabled ✅   | Kubernetes                     |
| default-storageclass        | minikube | enabled ✅   | Kubernetes                     |
| ingress                     | minikube | enabled ✅   | Kubernetes                     |
| registry                    | minikube | enabled ✅   | Google                         |
| storage-provisioner         | minikube | enabled ✅   | Google                         |

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