<p>I am confused as to how the minikube single node cluster works, when I start a k8s cluster using <code>minikube start --driver=docker</code>, 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.</p>
<p>Can anyone confirm this? Or perhaps correct me?</p>
<p>I have tried looking into the explanations in the minikube docs, but could not find a definitive answer.</p>

Martian
<p>Minikube cluster is a single-node cluster, meaning that it consists of only one machine–typically a containerized or virtual machine running on our laptop or desktop and deploys a simple cluster containing only one node.</p>
<p>Nodes in Kubernetes clusters are assigned roles. Start your Minikube cluster and then run the following command:</p>
<pre><code>kubectl get nodes
</code></pre>
<p>You should see one node, named minikube, because this is a single-node cluster.</p>
<pre><code>NAME      STATUS   ROLES                  AGE     VERSION
minikube   Ready    control-plane,master   99s     v1.23.1
</code></pre>
<p>Refer to the <a href="https://www.mirantis.com/blog/the-architecture-of-a-kubernetes-cluster/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">blog</a> written by Eric Gregory for information on architecture of single-node clusters.</p>
