Preliminary

To make our life easier, use alias

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alias k=kubectl
alias mk=minikube

You can create your own alias too!

Install

To install Minikube, refer to the official guidelines at https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start. Personally, I use EndeavourOS (an Arch-based Linux distribution), so I simply run sudo pacman -S minikube (refer to https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/minikube/) to complete the installation.

Command

Profile

Get List

Lists all valid minikube profiles and detects all possible invalid profiles.

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mk profile list

to get list kubecontext use command

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k config get-contexts

the result is like

Switch

This command switches the active Minikube profile to the specified profile_name.

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minikube profile profile-name

to switch kubecontext, we can use this command

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k config use-context context_name

Start

This command starts a Minikube cluster with the given profile_name. If the profile doesn’t exist, it will create a new one.

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minikube start -p profile_name
# example creating cluster with name 'newkube' using docker with 3 replicas
minikube start -p newkube  --driver=docker --nodes=3 

Delete

This command will delete the associated Kubernetes cluster and its resources.

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mk delete -p profile_name

Using the –purge flag will delete the .minikube folder from your user directory. This will remove all minikube related data. This is very useful when you want to fully clean up minikube.

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mk delete --purge

This command will delete all Minikube profiles.

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mk delete --all