This walkthrough shows how to use Minikube profiles to spin up, stop, and switch between local Kubernetes clusters, then verify them with kubectl, the dashboard, and kubectl proxy.
This video walks through spinning up Minikube locally, switching between profiles (single-node vs multi-node), and verifying everything with kubectl status/get nodes in.
Spin up the new profile and flip your context immediately with minikube start -p multinode then kubectl config use-context multinode, or kubectl get nodes will keep hitting whatever cluster you used last.
I name profiles after the thing I’m testing like ingress or cni-playground so minikube profile list is basically a clean little cluster menu.