kubectl installation ¶

Install kubectl on Linux ¶

           curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

          

             % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 41.9M  100 41.9M    0     0  9376k      0  0:00:04  0:00:04 --:--:-- 9875k

          

Make the kubectl binary executable ¶

           chmod +x ./kubectl

          

Move the binary in to your PATH ¶

           sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

          

Test to ensure the version you installed is up-to-date kubectl version –client ¶

           kubectl version --client

          

           Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"18", GitVersion:"v1.18.2", GitCommit:"52c56ce7a8272c798dbc29846288d7cd9fbae032", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2020-04-16T11:56:40Z", GoVersion:"go1.13.9", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

          

Verifying kubectl configuration ¶

In order for kubectl to find and access a Kubernetes cluster, it needs a kubeconfig file, which is created automatically when you create a cluster using kube-up.sh or successfully deploy a Minikube cluster.

By default, kubectl configuration is located at ~/.kube/config.

Check that kubectl is properly configured by getting the cluster state

kubectl cluster-info

           Kubernetes master is running at https://172.17.0.2:8443
KubeDNS is running at https://172.17.0.2:8443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy

To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.