You can verify your current context by doing the following: master $ kubectl config current-contextĪt this point, all requests we make to the Kubernetes cluster from the command line are scoped to the production namespace. use below command to switch into prod context. If you want to operate in the production namespace. You can now view the contexts and alternate against the two new request contexts depending on which namespace you wish to work against. By default, the above commands adds two contexts that are saved into file. grep arn value and use it as context in kubectl cmd (kubectl get pods -context arn:aws:eks:us-east-1:123123123123123:cluster/cluster.

describe the cluster (aws eks describe-cluster -name ) 3.

list the clusters in region (aws eks list-clusters -region us-east-1), 2. You can alternate against depending on what namespace you wish to work against. I guesss you can do somethinglike this 1. The above commands will create two new contexts. Kubectl config set-context prod -namespace=production -cluster=lithe-cocoa-92103_kubernetes -user=lithe-cocoa-92103_kubernetes This section sets our default cluster, namespace and user that kubectl will use with its commands.Ĭretae New Context: kubectl config set-context dev -namespace=development -cluster=lithe-cocoa-92103_kubernetes -user=lithe-cocoa-92103_kubernetes In the above command output you can see contexts section. This file also stores authentication information such as username/passwords, certificates or tokens. you can find this same info in $HOME/.kube/KUBECONFIG OR $HOME/.kube/config file. kubectl get - Display one or many resources kubectl kustomize - Build a kustomization target from a directory or a remote url. It will give you current context configuration. View Context Configuration master $ kubectl config view Kubectl config current-context master $ kubectl config will display the current context which you are using. To access a cluster, you need to know the location of the cluster and have credentials to access it.

Accessing for the first time with kubectl When accessing the Kubernetes API for the first time, we suggest using the Kubernetes CLI, kubectl.

To know what is the current context or To view the current context use below command This topic discusses multiple ways to interact with clusters.

Kubectl get list of contexts