I had installed minikube a few months ago and wanted to upgrade as newer versions are available.
I am unable to find out how to upgrade minikube. I see a feature request for an upgrade command here - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1171
I tried to then uninstall minikube and hit another brickwall again. I don't see a command to uninstall minikube. The information that came closest to this was not very helpful - https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/1043
I guess we need ways to upgrade these (at least once every 6 months or so).
Before reinstall minikube (OS X), check the following:
Make sure that you have brew
updated:
brew update
Make sure that you already have cask
installed:
brew cask install minikube --verbose
Finally, execute the following command in the same directory you've installed minikube previously (usually /usr/local/bin/
):
brew cask reinstall minikube
If you see an output similar to this:
Error: It seems there is already a Binary at '/usr/local/bin/minikube'; not linking.
Now, you should able to reinstall (upgrade) minikube. :)
This should do the trick.
brew cask reinstall minikube
First, unlink the existing minikube from /usr/local/bin
then reinstall:
$ sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/minikube # unlink existing minikube
$ brew update # update brew itself
$ brew cask reinstall minikube # reinstall latest minikube
An updated way is to use this:
brew cask upgrade minikube
minikube delete
sudo rm -rf ~/.minikube
re-install minikube and it should work
if you are using Windows machine and Chocolatey package manager -
Step 1: run PowerShell as administrator
Step 2: run following command choco upgrade minikube
More on chocolatey https://chocolatey.org/
As of early 2020, and based on the guidance provided by this answer, minikube is no more available as a cask
. You need to run:
brew install minikube
In order to upgrade in Windows, type:
minikube start
The following is the output you will get (make sure you are connected to internet):
Here is a newer version of Minikube available (v0.28.0). Download it here:
https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/releases/tag/v0.28.0
if you don't get the above message then first run
minikube config set WantUpdateNotification true
then do,
minikube start
Before that, remove all the Minikube links from the system:
- Remove the previous installation path.
- From this folder, remove
c:\Users\<user-name>\ .kube
folder.