Hands-On Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud

Terminating a Kubernetes cluster

Run the following command to terminate a Kubernetes cluster:

minikube delete --profile handson-spring-boot-cloud 

You can actually run the delete command without specifying the profile, but I find it safer to be explicit regarding the profile when it comes to the delete command. Otherwise, you may accidentally delete the wrong Kubernetes cluster!

Neither the Minikube profile definition under ~/.minikube/profiles/ nor the kubectl context in ~/.kube/config is deleted by this command. If they are no longer required, they can be deleted with the following commands:

rm -r ~/.minikube/profiles/handson-spring-boot-cloudkubectl config delete-context handson-spring-boot-cloud

The kubectl config delete-context command ...