Minikube

Installing Minikube

First, install Minikube, which may also require you to install a virtualisation solution, such as VirtualBox as well.

Starting Minikube

Minikube will need to be started with the supported version of Kubernetes that is supported with Agones, via the --kubernetes-version command line flag.

Optionally, we also recommend starting with an agones profile, using -p to keep this cluster separate from any other clusters you may have running with Minikube.

minikube start --kubernetes-version v1.20.9 -p agones

Check the official minikube start reference for more options that may be required for your platform of choice.

Local connection workarounds

Depending on your operating system and virtualization platform that you are using with Minikube, it may not be possible to connect directly to a GameServer hosted on Agones as you would on a cloud hosted Kubernetes cluster.

If you are unable to do so, the following workarounds are available, and may work on your platform:

minikube ip

Rather than using the published IP of a GameServer to connect, run minikube ip to get the local IP for the minikube node, and connect to that address.

Create a service

This would only be for local development, but if none of the other workarounds work, creating a Service for the GameServer you wish to connect to is a valid solution, to tunnel traffic to the appropriate GameServer container.

Use the following yaml:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: agones-gameserver
spec:
  type: LoadBalancer
  selector:
    agones.dev/gameserver: ${GAMESERVER_NAME}
  ports:
  - protocol: UDP
    port: 7000 # local port
    targetPort: ${GAMESERVER_CONTAINER_PORT}

Where ${GAMESERVER_NAME} is replaced with the GameServer you wish to connect to, and ${GAMESERVER_CONTAINER_PORT} is replaced with the container port GameServer exposes for connection.

Running minikube service list -p agones will show you the IP and port to connect to locally in the URL field.

To connect to a different GameServer, run kubectl edit service agones-gameserver and edit the ${GAMESERVER_NAME} value to point to the new GameServer instance and/or the ${GAMESERVER_CONTAINER_PORT} value as appropriate.

Next Steps

• Continue to Install Agones.