Kubectl Installation

Kubectl is available in the distribution package managers,

sudo apt-get install kubernetes-client

If you want the latest version you can install it manually.

curl -LO "https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(\
  curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt\
  )/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
chmod +x kubectl
mv kubectl ~/.local/bin/kubectl

Configure kubectl⚑

Set editor⚑

# File ~/.bashrc
KUBE_EDITOR="vim"

Set auto completion⚑

# File ~/.bashrc
source <(kubectl completion bash)

Configure EKS cluster⚑

To configure the access to an existing cluster, we'll let aws-cli create the required files:

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name {{ cluster_name }}