otakugeekx@gmail.com Lucas Couto minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster on a local machine, so a cluster can be used for learning, development and CI without any cloud infrastructure. It drives the node through a pluggable driver: a container runtime (docker, podman), a VM hypervisor (kvm2, virtualbox, qemu) or the bare host itself (none, ssh). https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues kubernetes/minikube Pull in app-emulation/libvirt at runtime, which the built-in kvm2 driver loads through dlopen