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Restarting your local Minikube-powered Kubernetes cluster

With Podman Desktop, you can restart your local Minikube-powered Kubernetes cluster.

Procedure​

Perform one of the following steps:

  • Restart using the Settings page

    1. Open Settings > Resources.
    2. Find the Minikube cluster to restart.
    3. Click the Restart icon. restart using the settings page

  • Restart using the Containers page:

    1. Open Containers from the left navigation pane.
    2. Click the overflow menu icon corresponding to the Minikube cluster container and select Restart Container. restart using the Containers page

Verification​

  1. Open Containers from the left navigation pane.
  2. Find the Minikube cluster that restarted. The cluster Age is consistent with the restart time.
  3. Open Pods from the left navigation pane.
  4. Find the pods that are running on your Minikube cluster.

Workaround​

Minikube has no command to restart a cluster. Therefore, Podman Desktop stops the Minikube cluster, and starts it again. The Minikube cluster might not restart successfully. In that case: