Compiled from the “Development Tips” series, gathering the common problems and solutions from day-to-day Kubernetes cluster operations. 1. Configuring Multiple Clusters with Kubectl When doing Kubernetes-related development you usually end up managing several clusters. Kubectl provides multi-cluster context management. Kubectl’s configuration usually lives in $HOME/.kube/config or /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf. Log into the machine, look at the cluster configuration, and edit it using the format below.

1. What Is kubectl kubectl is the command-line tool for Kubernetes. It interacts with the cluster through the API server. 2. Configuring kubectl kubectl can be configured through ~/.kube/config to connect to one or more clusters. For details on how to configure it, see: Configure Access to Multiple Clusters. If you need to configure a remote cluster, see: Building a Remote Kubernetes Development Environment.

1. Kubectl Basic Commands 1.1 Creating Objects 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 # Create resources; a remote URL also works kubectl create -f ./my.yaml # Create resources from multiple files kubectl create -f ./my1.yaml -f ./my2.yaml # Create resources using all manifest files in a directory kubectl create -f .