Install/Uninstall Minikube from macOS

minikube is local Kubernetes, focusing on making it easy to learn and develop for Kubernetes.

Uninstall Minikube

$ minikube stop; minikube delete
$ rm -r ~/.kube ~/.minikube
$ sudo rm /usr/local/bin/localkube /usr/local/bin/minikube
$ systemctl stop '*kubelet*.mount'
$ sudo rm -rf /etc/kubernetes/
$ docker system prune -af --volumes

Install Minikube

To install the latest minikube stable release on ARM64 macOS (M1) using binary download:

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-arm64
$ sudo install minikube-darwin-arm64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

To install the latest minikube stable release on x86-64 macOS (Intel) using binary download:

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/minikube/releases/latest/minikube-darwin-amd64
$ sudo install minikube-darwin-amd64 /usr/local/bin/minikube

Start a cluster

From a terminal with administrator access (but not logged in as root), run:

$ minikube start

For more detail on how to get started with minikube at https://minikube.sigs.k8s.io/docs/start/