Creating a fake kubeconfig using kubectl

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If we allow a pod to interact with the cluster's API, as long as we have kubectl installed on the container, we don't really need to worry about the kubeconfig file. Although some applications might complain is they don't find it, so we might need to create a fake kubeconfig just to make them happy

20/10/2021

Update local kubeconfig to connect to an AWS EKS cluster

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If we want to connect to an AWS EKS cluster using kubectl we need to update our kubeconfig (~/.kube/config) To do se we can use awscli

04/10/2021

What's the meaning of the sections of a kubeconfig file?

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The configuration file kubeconfig (~/.kube/config) is used to get access to a Kubernetes cluster. It looks like a Kubernetes object that defines the cluster, the user and the context to use:

apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
preferences: {}

clusters:
(...)

users:
(...)

contexts:
(...)

Let's take a minikube kubeconfig as an example

29/06/2021