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 * [Deploy TiDB by launching an AWS EKS cluster](./docs/aws-eks-tutorial.md)
 
+* [Deploy TiDB in the minikube cluster](./docs/minikube-tutorial.md)
+
 ## User guide
 
 Read the [user guide](./docs/user-guide.md).
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+# Deploy TiDB in the minikube cluster
+
+This document describes how to deploy a TiDB cluster in the [minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/) cluster.
+
+## Table of Contents
+
+- [Start a Kubernetes cluster with minikube](#start-a-kubernetes-cluster-with-minikube)
+  * [What is minikube?](#what-is-minikube)
+  * [Install minikube and start a Kubernetes cluster](#install-minikube-and-start-a-kubernetes-cluster)
+  * [Install kubectl to access the cluster](#install-kubectl-to-access-the-cluster)
+- [Install TiDB operator and run a TiDB cluster with it](#install-tidb-operator-and-run-a-tidb-cluster-with-it)
+  * [Install helm](#install-helm)
+  * [Install TiDB operator in the Kubernetes cluster](#install-tidb-operator-in-the-kubernetes-cluster)
+  * [Launch a TiDB cluster](#launch-a-tidb-cluster)
+  * [Test TiDB cluster](#test-tidb-cluster)
+  * [Delete TiDB cluster](#delete-tidb-cluster)
+- [FAQs](#faqs)
+  * [TiDB cluster in minikube is not responding or responds slow](#tidb-cluster-in-minikube-is-not-responding-or-responds-slow)
+
+## Start a Kubernetes cluster with minikube
+
+### What is minikube?
+
+[Minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/) can start a local
+Kubernetes cluster inside a VM on your laptop. It works on macOS, Linux, and
+Windows.
+
+### Install minikube and start a Kubernetes cluster
+
+See [Installing Minikube](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-minikube/) to install
+minikube (1.0.0+) on your machine.
+
+After you installed minikube, you can run the following command to start a
+Kubernetes cluster.
+
+```
+minikube start
+```
+
+For Chinese mainland users, you may use local gcr.io mirrors such as
+`registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers`.
+
+```
+minikube start --image-repository registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers
+```
+
+or configure HTTP/HTTPS proxy environments in your docker, e.g.
+
+```
+# change 127.0.0.1:1086 to your http/https proxy server IP:PORT
+minikube start --docker-env https_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1086 \
+  --docker-env http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:1086
+```
+
+See [minikube setup](https://kubernetes.io/docs/setup/minikube/) for more options to
+configure your virtual machine and Kubernetes cluster.
+
+### Install kubectl to access the cluster
+
+The Kubernetes command-line tool,
+[kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/kubectl/), allows you to run
+commands against Kubernetes clusters.
+
+Install kubectl according to the instructions in [Install and Set Up kubectl](https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/).
+
+After kubectl is installed, test your minikube Kubernetes cluster:
+
+```
+kubectl cluster-info
+```
+
+## Install TiDB operator and run a TiDB cluster with it
+
+### Install helm
+
+Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes and is what allows us to install all of the distributed components of TiDB in a single step. Helm requires both a server-side and a client-side component to be installed.
+
+```
+curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/helm/helm/master/scripts/get | bash
+```
+
+Install helm tiller:
+
+```
+helm init
+```
+
+If you have limited access to gcr.io, you can try a mirror, e.g.
+
+```
+helm init --upgrade --tiller-image registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers/tiller:$(helm version --client --short | grep -P -o 'v\d+\.\d+\.\d')
+```
+
+Once it is installed, running `helm version` should show you both the client
+and server version, e.g.
+
+```
+$ helm version
+Client: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.1",
+GitCommit:"618447cbf203d147601b4b9bd7f8c37a5d39fbb4", GitTreeState:"clean"}
+Server: &version.Version{SemVer:"v2.13.1",
+GitCommit:"618447cbf203d147601b4b9bd7f8c37a5d39fbb4", GitTreeState:"clean"}
+```
+
+If it shows only the client version, `helm` cannot yet connect to the server. Use
+`kubectl` to see if any tiller pods are running.
+
+```
+kubectl -n kube-system get pods -l app=helm
+```
+
+### Install TiDB operator in the Kubernetes cluster
+
+Clone tidb-operator repository:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/pingcap/tidb-operator
+cd tidb-operator
+kubectl apply -f ./manifests/crd.yaml
+helm install charts/tidb-operator --name tidb-operator --namespace tidb-admin
+```
+
+Now, we can watch the operator come up with:
+
+```
+watch kubectl get pods --namespace tidb-admin -o wide
+```
+
+If you have limited access to gcr.io (pods failed with ErrImagePull), you can
+try a mirror of kube-scheduler image. You can upgrade tidb-operator like this:
+
+```
+helm upgrade tidb-operator charts/tidb-operator --namespace tidb-admin --set \
+  scheduler.kubeSchedulerImageName=registry.cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com/google_containers/kube-scheduler
+```
+
+When you see both tidb-scheduler and tidb-controller-manager are running, you
+can process to launch a TiDB cluster!
+
+### Launch a TiDB cluster
+
+```
+helm install charts/tidb-cluster --name tidb-cluster --set \
+  schedulerName=default-scheduler,pd.storageClassName=standard,tikv.storageClassName=standard,pd.replicas=1,tikv.replicas=1,tidb.replicas=1
+```
+
+Watch tidb-cluster up and running:
+
+```
+watch kubectl get pods --namespace default -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=tidb-cluster -o wide
+```
+
+### Test TiDB cluster
+
+There can be a small delay between the pod is up and running, and the service
+is available. You can watch list services available with:
+
+```
+watch kubectl get svc
+```
+
+When you see `tidb-cluster-tidb` appear, it's ready to connect to TiDB server.
+
+After first, forward local port to tidb port:
+
+```
+kubectl port-forward svc/tidb-cluster-tidb 4000:4000
+```
+
+In another terminal, connect to TiDB server with MySQL client:
+
+```
+mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -uroot
+```
+
+Or run SQL command directly:
+
+```
+mysql -h 127.0.0.1 -P 4000 -uroot -e 'select tidb_version();'
+```
+
+### Delete TiDB cluster
+
+```
+helm delete --purge tidb-cluster
+kubectl get pv -l app.kubernetes.io/instance=tidb-cluster -o name | xargs -I {} kubectl patch {} -p '{"spec":{"persistentVolumeReclaimPolicy":"Delete"}} # update reclaim policy of PVs used by tidb-cluster to Delete
+kubectl delete pvc -l app.kubernetes.io/managed-by=tidb-operator # delete PVCs
+```
+
+## FAQs
+
+### TiDB cluster in minikube is not responding or responds slow
+
+The minikube VM is configured by default to only use 2048MB of memory and 2
+CPUs. You can pass more during `minikube start` with the `--memory` and `--cpus` flag.
+Note that you'll need to recreate minikube VM for this to take effect.
+
+```
+minikube delete
+minikube start --cpus 4 --memory 4096 ...
+```