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Kubeconfig for EKS Cluster

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How to create a kubeconfig file for an existing EKS Cluster?

Step-1:

Install aws-cli on your machine using the following script:

#!/bin/bash curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install aws --version
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Step-2:

Run aws configure command to set up aws credentials:

$ aws configure AWS Access Key ID [None]: <AccessID> AWS Secret Access Key [None]: <AccessKey> Default region name [None]: <Region> Default output format [None]: <Format, e.g:json>
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Step-3:

Create kubeconfig file on ~/.kube/config location:

$ aws eks update-kubeconfig --name <EKS_CLUSTER_NAME> \ --region <REGION_CODE>
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Run:

$ aws eks update-kubeconfig --name cluster-1 --region ap-northeast-1 $ cat ~/.kube/config
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Bonus: How to list all existing EKS Cluster ? 

$ aws eks list-clusters --region <AWS-REGION> $ aws eks list-clusters --region ap-northeast-1
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Output:

{ "clusters": [ "Cluster-1", "Cluster-2" ] }
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Query Cluster Name:

$ EKS_CLUSTER_NAME=$(aws eks list-clusters --region ap-northeast-1 --query clusters[0] --output text) $ echo $EKS_CLUSTER_NAME
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Output:

Cluster-1
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