Configuring Ingress to run Minikube on WSL2 using Docker runtime

Mon, 22 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000

As I mentioned previously, I’m trying to ramp up my Kube development using Windows’ newest Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2). You can read my previous post on how I found it remarkable to use my gaming laptop for day-to-day development. However, using WSL2 with Docker and Minikube brought not few challenges to make it work smoothly. In this post, I will cover how to make the Nginx Ingress controller work with Minikube when creating a cluster that is running on Docker instead of the traditional virtual machine.

Ingress on Hello Kube

Configuring Ingress to run Minikube on WSL2 using Docker runtime