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How to install kubeadm for Kubernetes in macOS. When tempting to use

brew install kubeadm

I get this error

Error: No available formula with the name "kubeadm" 
==> Searching for a previously deleted formula (in the last month)..

NB : In macOS I can't use apt-get

Smaillns
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Not sure about MAC OS

The supported platforms on their list are:

Ubuntu 16.04+
Debian 9
CentOS 7
RHEL 7
Fedora 25/26 (best-effort)
HypriotOS v1.0.1+
Container Linux (tested with 1800.6.0)

https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/production-environment/tools/kubeadm/install-kubeadm/

KubeAdm is not for Desktop local environment.

You can install Docker For MAC that will install the minikube environment for you.

Ijaz Ahmad
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    In fact, I want to create a cluster with more than one node – Smaillns Jul 16 '19 at 07:03
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    Ok then install virtual box, create a few virtual machines and then install a cluster on them – Ijaz Ahmad Jul 16 '19 at 07:32
  • If you just want to check [cluster certificate expiry](https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/how-to/credential-rotation#check_credential_lifetime) you don't need to install this binary – Phil Sep 12 '22 at 23:06
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You are not able to directly install kubeadm and set up kubernetes cluster locally on MAC OS because of docker. Unfortunately for MAC we should have VirtualBox where Docker will run + boot2docker.

And the best option here(as @Ijaz Ahmad Khan mentioned) is to use Docker Desktop for Mac

You can use below guide to correctly configure your cluster: How to Install Kubernetes on Mac

Vit
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At the moment kubernetes server components doesn't ship any Darwin OS(MAC OS) binaries so the control plane component can't directly run under MACOS. Although they ship kubectl for Darwin OS which can use any API Server to connect to and deploy the applications.

However I was able to run the Hyperkube Binary inside the container that can support the all control plane components but this would all be under docker container so that isn't essentially a Darwin OS supported Control Plane.

You can try this if you just want to use local installs: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/images/hyperkube

also If you are really looking to do everything in MAC , then possibly Install Hyperkit driver and that will allow you do pretty much the same thing to pull up the control plane images and built it up.

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Damn, since this is 3 years old question, might be too late but you can use cluster on MacOS with using brew install kind.

Kind is short for Kubernetes IN Docker.

Here the documentation on more details about kind.

https://kind.sigs.k8s.io/

FriedWaffle
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