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minikube Environment Variables

Config option variables

minikube supports passing environment variables instead of flags for every value listed in minikube config list. This is done by passing an environment variable with the prefix MINIKUBE_.

For example the minikube start --iso-url="$ISO_URL" flag can also be set by setting the MINIKUBE_ISO_URL="$ISO_URL" environment variable.

Other variables

Some features can only be accessed by environment variables, here is a list of these features:

MINIKUBE_HOME - (string) sets the path for the .minikube directory that minikube uses for state/configuration
MINIKUBE_IN_COLOR - (bool) manually sets whether or not emoji and colors should appear in minikube. Set to false or 0 to disable this feature, true or 1 to force it to be turned on.
MINIKUBE_WANTUPDATENOTIFICATION - (bool) sets whether the user wants an update notification for new minikube versions
MINIKUBE_REMINDERWAITPERIODINHOURS - (int) sets the number of hours to check for an update notification
MINIKUBE_WANTKUBECTLDOWNLOADMSG - (bool) sets whether minikube should tell a user that kubectl cannot be found on there path
MINIKUBE_WANTNONEDRIVERWARNING - (bool) sets whether minikube should warn a user about running the 'none' driver
MINIKUBE_ENABLE_PROFILING - (int, 1 enables it) enables trace profiling to be generated for minikube

Making these values permanent

To make the exported variables permanent:

Linux and macOS: Add these declarations to ~/.bashrc or wherever your shells environment variables are stored.
Windows: Add these declarations via system settings or using setx

Example: Disabling emoji

export MINIKUBE_IN_COLOR=false
minikube start

Example: Profiling

MINIKUBE_ENABLE_PROFILING=1 minikube start

Output:

2017/01/09 13:18:00 profile: cpu profiling enabled, /tmp/profile933201292/cpu.pprof
Starting local Kubernetes cluster...
Kubectl is now configured to use the cluster.
2017/01/09 13:19:06 profile: cpu profiling disabled, /tmp/profile933201292/cpu.pprof

Examine the cpu profiling results:

go tool pprof  /tmp/profile933201292/cpu.pprof

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