deleting minikube cluster so I can create a larger cluster with more CPUs

Question

I need to run sudo minikube start --memory=4096 --cpus=2 for my use case. However it is running with 1 cpu already. Somehow I started it w/o creating an entry in ~/kube/config so "kubectl config delete-cluster minikube" returns, "error: cannot delete cluster minikube, not in /home/ec2-user/.kube/config".

Trying to work around this, to delete my cluster and start with a larger one, I ran, "kubectl config set current-context minikube". Which created this entry in .kube/config: cat .kube/config

apiVersion: v1

clusters: null

contexts: null current-context: minikube

kind: Config

preferences: {}

users: null

NOTE: ignore double spaces I had to enter carriage returns to get the proper format)

Anyone know how to delete my current cluster, so I can create a bigger one with more memory and cpus?

Answer 1

You'll need to run minikube stop, then you should be able to start minikube again with more resources (minikube start --memory=4096 --cpus=2).

No need to delete your cluster.