KUBERNETES: How To Setup Kubectl Environment Variables On Control Node To Run Kubectl Commands?

Login to Kubernetes control node as user using which you want to run kubectl commands. Execute below commands to setup kubectl command

mkdir -p $HOME/.kube

sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config

sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config

export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/config

echo 'export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/config' >> $HOME/.bashrc

Validate that the kubectl commands are working. For this you can run below simple command to list the pods.

kubectl get pods -owide