minishift ☆

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Type: Cask | Latest Version: 1.34.3@0 | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: openshift kubernetes local-development container-orchestration devops

Install: brew install --cask minishift

About:
Minishift is a tool that helps you run OpenShift locally by launching a single-node OpenShift cluster inside a virtual machine. It automates the setup and teardown of a local environment for developing and testing containerized applications. This allows developers to build, deploy, and test applications in a production-like environment on their own machines.

Key Features:

One-command local OpenShift cluster setup
Support for multiple hypervisors (VirtualBox, KVM, Hyper-V)
Built-in command-line tool for managing the cluster lifecycle
Easy integration with OpenShift CLI (oc)

Use Cases:

Local development and testing of OpenShift applications
Learning and experimenting with OpenShift features
Offline demonstration of container orchestration

Alternatives:

CodeReady Containers (CRC) – CRC provides a more resource-efficient, pre-configured OpenShift 4.x environment, while Minishift focuses on OpenShift 3.x with more hypervisor flexibility.
Kind – Kind runs Kubernetes clusters in Docker containers, which is lighter weight but lacks the full OpenShift feature set.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Jul 2, 2024 11:09pm	1.34.3	0	VERSION_BUMP	fe4f3405