kubeadm only does single master deployments, so it's not useful for production, but minikube is much better IMO for development. (Minikube isn't just a VM wrapper, `minikube --vm-driver=none` works quite nicely for our dev setups).

kubeadm is turning into more of a building block: minikube and kubespray are using it.

I used to think the same, but Weaveworks and Lucas (Kubeadm maintainer) both state kubeadm is production-ready and that K8s doesn't need HA to run in production.