Install MicroK8s on Apple M1 silicon

With the release of Multipass 1.8, we are happy to announce that MicroK8s gains M1 Apple Silicon support.

Installing MicroK8s on an M1 Mac is as simple as it is on an Intel Mac (see MicroK8s on Intel Mac tutorial).

brew install ubuntu/microk8s/microk8s

And then we can start MicroK8s with the desired VM size.

microk8s install --cpu 4 --mem 16 --disk 50

We can now enable MicroK8s features we’d like to use. For example, the Kubernetes Dashboard.

microk8s enable dashboard

Once enabled, we can use the proxy built in to MicroK8s in order to access the dashboard.

microk8s dashboard-proxy

• One node not enough? Try setting up a MicroK8s cluster.
• Want to experiment with alpha releases of Kubernetes? See the documentation on setting channels.
• Need to fiddle with the Kubernetes configuration? Find out how to configure the Kubernetes services.
• Find out how to run MicroK8s on Windows, Multipass or a Raspberry Pi.
• Having problems? Check out our troubleshooting section.
• Love MicroK8s? Want to contribute or suggest a feature? Give us your feedback.