Minikube uses boot2docker as its base image, so the default SSH login to the VM ends up being docker:tcuser1.

I too wanted to login without the Minikube command. I found that it drops the SSH key it generates into ~/.minikube/machines//id_rsa.

My machine was named the default "minikube", and therefore I could do:

ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip)

For windows hyper-v the answer was

• open "Hyper-V Manager"

• right click on the "minikube" VM

• user "root"

There was no password.. that got me in.

minikube ssh -v 7

It will show you the output where you can see the full SSH command

/usr/bin/ssh -F /dev/null -o PasswordAuthentication=no -o StrictHostKeyChecking=no -o UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null -o LogLevel=quiet -o ConnectionAttempts=3 -o ConnectTimeout=10 -o ControlMaster=no -o ControlPath=none docker@127.0.0.1 -o IdentitiesOnly=yes -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa -p 56290

docker/tcuser is the username/password to access to it , and it's also an straight way.

if you just want to master the control platform, then minikube ssh is a quick way to login.

All the files mentioned are AuthOptions, which can be configured in the config.json file:

$HOME\.minikube\machines\minikube\config.json

Generally, the SSH user is: docker.

If you want to ssh into your Minikube node/VM, then use SSH keys. You can use a Windows client application like WinSCP to configure the keys for your VM. If the format of keys is not as expected (.ppk), then use another client called PuttyGen to convert the keys into the expected format.

After you're done, log in using WinSCP, and it will enable you to shh into the desired VM using the configured keys.

Getting user and password for minikube in Mac.

cat ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/config.json

Loggin on SSH

ssh -i ~/.minikube/machines/minikube/id_rsa docker@$(minikube ip)