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

Answer 1

minikube delete
sudo rm -rf ~/.minikube

re-install minikube and it should work

Answer 2

Process to update:

• Minikube is an executable: Re-install minikube is an upgrade.
• Optionally you can remove ~/.minikube which will make minikube completely re-initialize and also update your kubernetes version (if a new version has been made available for minikube).

Answer 3

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/

Answer 4

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:

1. Remove the previous installation path.
2. From this folder, remove c:\Users\<user-name>\ .kube folder.

Answer 5

This should do the trick.

brew cask reinstall minikube

Answer 6

If you're reading this in 2020+:

brew upgrade minikube