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Chapter 6. Uninstalling Container Development Kit

  1. Delete the Minishift VM and any VM-specific files. 

    ~]$ minishift delete
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    This command deletes everything in the MINISHIFT_HOME/.minishift/machines/minishift directory. Other cached data and the persistent configuration are not removed.

  2. To completely uninstall Minishift, delete everything in the MINISHIFT_HOME directory (default ~/.minishift) and ~/.kube: 

    ~]$ rm -rf ~/.minishift
~]$ rm -rf ~/.kube
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  3. With your hypervisor management tool, confirm that there are no remaining artifacts related to the Minishift VM. For example, if you use KVM, you need to run the virsh command.
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