Wednesday, February 15, 2023

How to connect to a cloud Kubernetes service

You can use kubectl, the command line tool for Kubernetes, to access a Kubernetes cluster from your local host. To do this, you will need to create a Kubernetes Service Account, then create a service account token and configure your local kubectl to use that token.

To create a Kubernetes Service Account on your local host, you will need to use the kubectl command line tool. kubectl create serviceaccount <service-account-name> Replace <service-account-name> with a name of your choice. This will create a Kubernetes Service Account with the given name. Once you have created the service account, you will need to create a service account token. You can do this by running the following command: kubectl create secret generic <secret-name> --from-literal=token=<token-value> Replace <secret-name> with a name of your choice, and <token-value> with a valid token value. This will create a service account token with the given name and token value. Once the service account token is created, you can configure your local kubectl to use the token. To do this, you can run the following command: kubectl config set-credentials <service-account-name> --token=<token-value> Replace <service-account-name> with the name of the service account you created and <token-value> with the token value you generated. This will configure your local kubectl to use the token for authentication when connecting to the service account.