Kubectl

kubectl is the command line interface to our kubernetes clusters.

Releases

Kubernetes keeps their client binaries available on their releases page:
https://kubernetes.io/releases/

Installation Instructions

Warning: the following install is pinned, see releases page for a newer version.

VERSION=1.21.3; curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/v${VERSION}/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl"
chmod +x ./kubectl
sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

details: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/

Checking Your Kubectl Version

kubectl version --client --short

expected result: Client Version: v1.21.3

Getting EKS Configs

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/reference/eks/update-kubeconfig.html To establish or adjust kubecfg, your local kubectl config file, with connection details for each of the kubernetes clusters, run the following 3 commands

AWS_PROFILE=mgmt aws eks update-kubeconfig --name k8s-mgmt --region us-east-2
AWS_PROFILE=preprod aws eks update-kubeconfig --name k8s-preprod --region us-east-2
AWS_PROFILE=production aws eks update-kubeconfig --name k8s-production --region us-east-2