Minikube Add-ons for Production-Like Environments#

A bare minikube cluster runs workloads but lacks the infrastructure that production clusters rely on – metrics collection, ingress routing, TLS, monitoring, and load balancer support. Minikube’s addon system bridges this gap with one-command installs of production components.

Surveying Available Add-ons#

List everything minikube offers:

minikube addons list

This prints dozens of addons with their status. Most are disabled by default. The ones worth enabling depend on what you are testing, but a production-like setup typically needs five to seven of them.