Method to configure Kubectl tool in your laptop

Introduction

Laymen explanation

If you like to access kubernetes cluster from anywhere, then you would like to access it from your laptop as well. This document helps in this.

Technical explanation

Kubernetes uses client-server model. Kubectl is client app which can connect to Kubernetes API-server remotely. For doing this, client must be able to authenticate the server.

Steps

Install kubectl to your laptop

Use Kubernetes documentation for this

Configure kubectl

• • Copy admin.conf from kubernetes cluster (refer KUBECONFIG env variable in the cluster master for the location) to laptop.

  • Set KUBECONFIG env variable in your laptop. Path will be admin.conf location in your laptop

  • Fire kubectl command for validation

Steps to configure kubectl

Deepaks-MacBook-Air:~ deepak$ scp root@10.106.73.232:/etc/kubernetes/admin.conf .

root@10.106.73.232's password:

admin.conf 100% 5453 1.5MB/s 00:00

Deepaks-MacBook-Air:~ deepak$ pwd

/Users/deepak

Deepaks-MacBook-Air:~ deepak$ export KUBECONFIG=/Users/deepak/admin.conf

Deepaks-MacBook-Air:~ deepak$ kubectl get pods

No resources found.

Deepaks-MacBook-Air:~ deepak$ kubectl get nodes

NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION

ubuntu-231 Ready <none> 5d v1.10.0

ubuntu-232 Ready master 5d v1.10.0

Reference

https://github.com/Azure/acs-engine/issues/2418