~/.kube/config

~/.kube/config
kubectl --kubeconfig ~/.kube/yourclusterconfig

apiVersion: v1
clusters: null
contexts: null
current-context: ""
kind: Config
preferences: {}
users: null

Configure

• AWS: aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-eks-cluster-name
• GCP: gcloud container clusters get-credentials MyClusterName

Examples

apiVersion: v1 
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: LS0tLS1CRUdJTiDATAREMOVEDCg==
    server: https://00AXXXXXXXXXX1B.gr7.us-east-2.eks.amazonaws.com
  name: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123455:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv 
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123456:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv
    user: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123455:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv
  name: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123456:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv 
current-context: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123456:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv 
kind: Config

  kind: Config
 preferences: {}
 users:
 - name: arn:aws:eks:us-east-2:123456:cluster/education-eks-Ry318DCv
  [[user:]]
    exec:
      apiVersion: client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1
      args:
      - --region
      - us-east-2
      - eks
      - get-token
      - --cluster-name
      - education-eks-Ry318DCv
      command: aws
      env:
      - name: AWS_PROFILE
        value: your_aws_profile

Example

- name: your-cluster-name
  user:
    auth-provider:
      config:
        access-token: ya29.a0AVA9y1sXXXXC-z107gauQ0174
        cmd-args: config config-helper --format=json
        cmd-path: /Users/my-user/brew/Caskroom/google-cloud-sdk/latest/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gcloud
        expiry: "2022-08-25T15:03:28Z"
        expiry-key: '{.credential.token_expiry}'
        token-key: '{.credential.access_token}'
      name: your-name

Errors

Error: unable to describe cluster control plane: AccessDeniedException: User: arn:aws:iam::0987654321:user/YOUR_USER is not authorized to perform: eks:DescribeCluster on resource: arn:aws:eks:xx-east-2:0987654321:cluster/my-eks-cluster-name with an explicit deny

kubectl get pods
error: exec plugin: invalid apiVersion "client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1"

aws --version
aws-cli/1.18.147 .../...

error: You must be logged in to the server (Unauthorized)

Activites

• Merge multiple kubeconfigs
• Creating or updating a kubeconfig file for an Amazon EKS cluster aws eks update-kubeconfig

Related

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/eks/latest/userguide/create-kubeconfig.html
• kubectl config
• kubectl konfig merge
• kubectl get nodes, kubectl get svc
• Terraform: Kubernetes provider, Terraform helm provider
• aws eks get-token
• Connect to K8s cluster
  • AWS: aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-eks-cluster-name
  • GCP: gcloud container clusters get-credentials MyClusterName
• kubectl config rename-context
• kubectl auth
• kubectl config view --flatten
• rancher cluster kubeconfig
• Install kubectl
• kubectl --context

See also

• kubectl config [ view | get-contexts | current-context | get-clusters | set-context | set-credentials ], ~/.kube/config, kubectl config --help, kubectx, Kubernetes contexts, KUBECONFIG, kubectl --kubeconfig
• Terraform EKS, Terraform EKS module, Deploy EKS cluster using Terraform, Terraform EKS apply output, terraform show, ~/.kube/config, aws_eks_cluster, aws_eks_addon, module.eks_managed_node_group, eks-cluster.tf, node_groups, worker_groups