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1. Install YugabyteDB

Prerequisites

Minikube is installed on your localhost machine.

The Kubernetes version used by Minikube should be v1.18.0 or later. The default Kubernetes version being used by Minikube displays when you run the minikube start command. To install Minikube, see Install Minikube in the Kubernetes documentation.
kubectl is installed.

To install kubectl, see Install kubectl in the Kubernetes documentation.
Helm 3.4 or later is installed.

To install helm, see Install helm in the Helm documentation.

Start Kubernetes

Start Kubernetes using Minikube by running the following command. Note that minikube by default brings up a single-node Kubernetes environment with 2GB RAM, 2 CPUS, and a disk of 20GB. We recommend starting minkube with at least 8GB RAM, 4 CPUs and 40GB disk as shown below.
```
$ minikube start --memory=8192 --cpus=4 --disk-size=40g --vm-driver=virtualbox
```
```
...
Configuring environment for Kubernetes v1.14.2 on Docker 18.09.6
...
```
Review Kubernetes dashboard by running the following command.
```
$ minikube dashboard
```

Confirm that your kubectl is configured correctly by running the following command.

$ kubectl version

Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"14+", GitVersion:"v1.14.10-dispatcher", ...}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"14", GitVersion:"v1.14.2", ...}

Confirm that your Helm is configured correctly by running the following command.

$ helm version

version.BuildInfo{Version:"v3.0.3", GitCommit:"...", GitTreeState:"clean", GoVersion:"go1.13.6"}

Download YugabyteDB Helm Chart

Add charts repository

To add the YugabyteDB charts repository, run the following command.

$ helm repo add yugabytedb https://charts.yugabyte.com

Fetch updates from the repository

Make sure that you have the latest updates to the repository by running the following command.

$ helm repo update

Validate the chart version

$ helm search repo yugabytedb/yugabyte

NAME                 CHART VERSION  APP VERSION   DESCRIPTION
yugabytedb/yugabyte  2.13.0          2.13.0.0-b42  YugabyteDB is the high-performance distributed ...

Now you are ready to create a local YugabyteDB cluster.

Next step

Create a local cluster