Minikube commands

So far, we have used the minikube start and minikube status commands to launch our single-node Kubernetes cluster and check that everything is running as expected. Before we look at interacting with Kubernetes, there are a few more basic Minikube commands I would like to cover.

Stop and delete

As we are running our single-node Kubernetes cluster as a virtual machine on your host, you may not want it running all of the time, using resources.

There are two options to achieve this, the first of which is minikube stop. This command will stop your node and keep the virtual machine intact. You should use this command if you plan on picking up where you left off when you next start your node by running minikube...