Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Working with Minikube profiles

In order to run multiple Kubernetes clusters locally, Minikube comes with the concept of profiles. For example, if you want to work with multiple versions of Kubernetes, you can create multiple Kubernetes clusters using Minikube. Each cluster will be assigned a separate Minikube profile. Most of the Minikube commands accept a --profile flag (or -p for short) that can be used to specify which of the Kubernetes clusters the command shall be applied to. If you plan to work with one specific profile for a while, a more convenient alternative exists, where you specify the current profile with the following command:

minikube profile my-profile

The preceding command will set the my-profile profile as the current profile. ...