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).

Raquel Campuzano

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

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).