How to upgrade minikube?

Question

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).

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

An updated way is to use this:

brew cask upgrade minikube

Answer 3

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