# Minikube not starting - expired cert

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/minikube-not-starting-expired-cert/38496>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx, kubernetes\
**Created:** [October 5, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minikube-not-starting-expired-cert/38496 "2023-10-05T09:27:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_Dolan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d2c977/32.png) [@David\_Dolan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_Dolan)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2023, 9:27am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/minikube-not-starting-expired-cert/38496/1 "2023-10-05T09:27:32Z")

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Hi All,

I’ve run into an issue where Minikube won’t start due to an expired certificate. It expired after a year.

**error execution phase certs/apiserver-kubelet-client: [certs] certificate apiserver-kubelet-client not signed by CA certificate ca: x509: certificate has expired or is not yet valid: current time 2023-10-04T13:58:31Z is after 2023-10-04T10:03:51Z**

I’m running AWX under Minikube version 1.27.0.

It’s seems to be a known issue and there is mention of re-creating the certs but losing data  
[https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/10122](https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/issues/10122)

Is there a way to resolve this without losing any data/configuration?

Thanks  
David