2 min read | by Jordi Prats
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
We just need to use eks update-kubeconfig specifying the name of the cluster we want to use:
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name clutername We might also need to specify an AWS profile so the actual command would look like this:
$ aws eks --profile ampa update-kubeconfig --name prod Updated context arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod in /home/pet2cattle/.kube/config Once we have the kubeconfig updated we can use kubectl config to switch between clusters that we already have on our local kubeconfig:
$ kubectl config get-contexts CURRENT NAME CLUSTER AUTHINFO NAMESPACE arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod ampa arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test * arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod minikube minikube minikube default $ kubectl config use-context arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod Switched to context "arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod". $ kubectl config get-contexts CURRENT NAME CLUSTER AUTHINFO NAMESPACE * arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/prod ampa arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/test arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod arn:aws:eks:eu-west-1:123456789123:cluster/preprod minikube minikube minikube default Posted on 04/10/2021