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Resetting and restarting your cluster

If you want to wipe out your local Minikube cluster and restart, it is very easy to do so. Issuing a command to delete and then start Minikube will wipe out the environment and reset it to a blank slate:

minikube deleteDeleting local Kubernetes cluster...Machine deleted.minikube startStarting local Kubernetes v1.7.5 cluster...Starting VM...Getting VM IP address...Moving files into cluster...Setting up certs...Connecting to cluster...Setting up kubeconfig...Starting cluster components...Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.

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