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Connecting-to-kubernetes-cluster

Create a file on ~/.kube/config

mkdir -p ~/.kube

vim to the config file in .kube

vi -p ~/.kube/config

copy and paste the below

apiVersion: v1
kind: Config
clusters:
- cluster:
    certificate-authority-data: {cluster-ca}
    server: {server-dns}
  name: {cluster-name}
users:
- name: {user-name}
  user:
    token: {secret-token}
contexts:
- context:
    cluster: {cluster-name}
    user: {user-name}
  name: {context-name}
current-context: {context-name}

let update the entries with what we received from the kubernetes adminstrator

Please , make sure you have kubectl installed.

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"

curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl.sha256"

echo "$(cat kubectl.sha256)  kubectl" | sha256sum --check

sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

mkdir -p ~/.local/bin/kubectl

mv ./kubectl ~/.local/bin/kubectl

check kubectl version to make sure it is installed

kubectl version --client