Install minikube on arm based (M1/M2) Mac

If you have a Mac with the M1 (arm) processor, you can still run minikube by changing the driver to Docker. Of course, you will need Docker already installed for this to work.

Install

Download the binary:

curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Or install via Homebrew

brew install minikube

Run

If you run just ‘minikube start’, you should see an error like this:

Exiting due to DRV_UNSUPPORTED_OS: The driver 'parallels' is not supported on darwin/arm64

Use the Docker driver to create a container or containers depending on the cluster setip

minikube start --driver=docker

Stopping the local cluster doesn’t require the driver flag

minikube stop