I am confused as to how the minikube single node cluster works, when I start a k8s cluster using minikube start --driver=docker, is the single node itself a docker container, or it is our local machine? I assume that single node is the local machine and the pods are containers inside this node.
Can anyone confirm this? Or perhaps correct me?
I have tried looking into the explanations in the minikube docs, but could not find a definitive answer.
In the last two paragraphs of kubernetes-basics/Using Minikube to Create a Cluster, it says:
Minikubeis a lightweight Kubernetes implementation that creates a VM on your local machine and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node.
Minikube creates a single node cluster contained in a virtual machine (VM), with the help of a virtualization manager on Linux, MacOS, or Windows operating systems.