At this moment after VM is provisioned we directly execute oc cluster up. I want to add some flags and following flow.

$ minishift start --no-provision => exist and does it very well
$ minishift start --write-config => This will just write the cluster up config with whatever parameter user provide as part of start and configs are present in the /var/lib/minishift/base
$ minishift openshift start => this will just do the cluster up using the /var/lib/minishift/base directory as config.

All the flags will be behind the experimenting flags and our day to day users are not going to see any change to their flow. This will be helpful for mostly advance users and our own testing purpose.

We can leverage this to do some other experiment before even implementing.