How to — Upgrade minikube to latest version ?

Kiranms
Cloudnloud Tech Community
3 min readJan 29, 2023
  1. Check your current minikube version.
    # minikube version

2) check your latest minikube version available to install or update.
# minikube update-check

here you will see LatestVersion v1.29.0, and that’s where we are planning to upgrade too.
3) Stop if your minikube cluster is running.
# minikube stop & then check the status of your minikube status.

4) Delete your minikube cluster .
# minikube delete

5) Remove minikube binary files from /usr/local/bin/minikube
Check — # ls -ltr /usr/local/bin/minikube
Remove — # sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/minikube
Verify — # ls -ltr /usr/local/bin/minikube

6) Download latest minikube binary from here Minikube Download
# curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-linux-amd64

7) After downloading it,Install minikube.

# sudo install minikube-linux-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

& that’s it we have installed and upgraded our minikube cluster successfully. Whoooo Hoooooo !!!
Verify the status with below command.
# minikube version

8) Start your minikube cluster.
Note :- This will take some time to pull base kubernetes v1.26.1 images to start your minikube
cluster.
# minikube start

9) check the status of your minikube cluster.

# minikube status

10) simplest way to install & upgrade minikube run the below script , you can get it from my github repo
# ./minikube_install.sh

Happy Learning

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