Interacting with Your Minikube Kubernetes Cluster

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At this point, you have a running single-node Kubernetes cluster on your laptop! Minikube also configures `kubectl` for you, so you're also ready to run containers with no changes.



Minikube creates a Host-Only network interface that routes to your node. To interact with running pods or services, you should send traffic over this address. To find out this address, you can use the `minikube ip` command:

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Title: Interacting with Your Minikube Kubernetes Cluster

Summary

This section explains how to interact with the Kubernetes cluster running on Minikube. Once Minikube starts, it configures kubectl, enabling users to immediately run containers. Minikube creates a Host-Only network interface for routing traffic to the node. The `minikube ip` command reveals the IP address needed to interact with running pods and services.