How do I ssh into the VM for Minikube?

Question

What is the username/password/keys to ssh into the Minikube VM?

Solution 1

You can use the Minikube binary for this, minikube ssh.

Solution 2

Minikube uses boot2docker as its base image, so the default SSH login to the VM ends up being docker:tcuser1.

Solution 3

I too wanted to login without the Minikube command. I found that it drops the SSH key it generates into ~/.minikube/machines//id_rsa.

My machine was named the default "minikube", and therefore I could do:

ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip)

Solution 4

For windows hyper-v the answer was

• open "Hyper-V Manager"

• right click on the "minikube" VM

• user "root"

There was no password.. that got me in.

Solution 5

minikube ssh -v 7

It will show you the output where you can see the full SSH command

/usr/bin/ssh -F /dev/null -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -o ConnectionAttempts=3 -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlMaster=no -o ControlPath=none [email protected] -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa -p 56290

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Comments

[Sridhar Sarnobat]

For anyone confused - that will take you into the VM for the entire cluster (the "master"?). From there, you can docker exec -it bash one of the containers listed in docker ps.

[Andrew Price]

Nice! ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip) worked in gitbash on windows too :)

[AbelSurace]

I showed the vn from virtualbox and as above I used user: docker pasword: tcuser

[Tonmoy]

Nice work @Rub21. Your answer helped me when I needed to SSH into minikube on Mac

[David]

It is deprecated now, and password login is disabled. Login is now available by private public key only, like here: ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip) described in stackoverflow.com/a/42913652/1901067 answer from @Bob Van Zant

[NIK]

This worked... Thanks (My environment was Fedora + VirtualBox)