In this lab you will generate a kubeconfig file for the kubectl command line utility based on the admin user credentials.
Run the commands in this lab from the same directory used to generate the admin client certificates.
Each kubeconfig requires a Kubernetes API Server to connect to. To support high availability the IP address assigned to the external load balancer fronting the Kubernetes API Servers will be used.
Generate a kubeconfig file suitable for authenticating as the admin user:
{
KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS=$(gcloud compute addresses describe kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--region $(gcloud config get-value compute/region) \
--format 'value(address)')
kubectl config set-cluster kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--certificate-authority=ca.pem \
--embed-certs=true \
--server=https://${KUBERNETES_PUBLIC_ADDRESS}:6443
kubectl config set-credentials admin \
--client-certificate=admin.pem \
--client-key=admin-key.pem
kubectl config set-context kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--cluster=kubernetes-the-hard-way \
--user=admin
kubectl config use-context kubernetes-the-hard-way
}
Check the version of the remote Kubernetes cluster:
kubectl version
output
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.0", GitCommit:"cb303e613a121a29364f75cc67d3d580833a7479", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-04-08T16:31:21Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.1", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"21", GitVersion:"v1.21.0", GitCommit:"cb303e613a121a29364f75cc67d3d580833a7479", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2021-04-08T16:25:06Z", GoVersion:"go1.16.1", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}
List the nodes in the remote Kubernetes cluster:
kubectl get nodes
output
NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION
worker-0 Ready <none> 2m35s v1.21.0
worker-1 Ready <none> 2m35s v1.21.0
worker-2 Ready <none> 2m35s v1.21.0