How to upgrade minikube?

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.

• Remove the existing binary:

    rm /usr/local/bin/minikube
  

Now, you should able to reinstall (upgrade) minikube. :)

This should do the trick.

brew cask reinstall minikube

brew upgrade minikube

Just upgrade minikube with brew

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

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).

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

Minikube is no longer available in cask and calling brew cask while performing install, upgrade, or reinstall is deprecated! Use the below syntax instead:

Make sure brew is updated:

brew update

Then, to install, use:

brew install minikube

To upgrade, use:

brew upgrade minikube

To reinstall, use:

brew reinstall minikube 

If you're reading this in 2020+:

brew upgrade minikube

On linux:

curl -Lo minikube https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/v1.22.0/minikube-linux-amd64 && chmod +x minikube && sudo cp minikube /usr/local/bin/ && rm minikube

Change the version you want to download. Above script uses 1.22.0

Just try brew upgrade minikube

brew reinstall minikube --cask did the trick for me

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.