initial attempt to account for profile in directly kubectl case

cmd/minikube/cmd/kubectl.go

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ minikube kubectl -- get pods --namespace kube-system`,
 		co := mustload.Healthy(ClusterFlagValue())
 
 		version := co.Config.KubernetesConfig.KubernetesVersion
+		fmt.Printf("args=%+v\n", args)
 		c, err := KubectlCommand(version, args...)
 		if err != nil {
 			out.ErrLn("Error caching kubectl: %v", err)

cmd/minikube/cmd/root.go

@@ -71,7 +71,19 @@ func Execute() {
 	_, callingCmd := filepath.Split(os.Args[0])
 
 	if callingCmd == "kubectl" {
-		os.Args = append([]string{RootCmd.Use, callingCmd}, os.Args[1:]...)
+		// If the user is using the minikube binary as kubectl, allow them to specify the kubectl context without also specifying minikube profile
+		profile := ""
+		for i, a := range os.Args {
+			if a == "--context" {
+				profile = fmt.Sprintf("--profile=%s", os.Args[i+1])
+				break
+			} else if strings.HasPrefix(a, "--context=") {
+				context := strings.Split(a, "=")[1]
+				profile = fmt.Sprintf("--profile=%s", context)
+			}
+		}
+		os.Args = append([]string{RootCmd.Use, callingCmd, profile, "--"}, os.Args[1:]...)
+		fmt.Printf("%+v\n", os.Args)
 	}
 	for _, c := range RootCmd.Commands() {
 		c.Short = translate.T(c.Short)

test/integration/functional_test.go

@@ -328,7 +328,7 @@ func validateMinikubeKubectlDirectCall(ctx context.Context, t *testing.T, profil
 	}
 	defer os.Remove(dstfn) // clean up
 
-	kubectlArgs := []string{"get", "pods"}
+	kubectlArgs := []string{"--context", profile, "get", "pods"}
 	rr, err := Run(t, exec.CommandContext(ctx, dstfn, kubectlArgs...))
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("failed to run kubectl directly. args %q: %v", rr.Command(), err)