Adding a Minikube Addon from Scratch

Introduction: Why I’m Writing This Hi! This is where I write about the lessons that I learn from open source contributions! This is not a polished “here’s how to contribute to open source” tutorial written by someone who has done it a hundred times. The project is Minikube, the tool that lets you run a Kubernetes cluster on your local machine for development and testing. The contribution I worked on was adding Node Readiness Controller (NRC) as a Minikube addon, so that anyone in the world can type minikube start --addons=nrc and have it just work. ...

May 6, 2026 · 13 min · Arnab Nandi