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I have an admin.conf file containing info about a cluster, so that the following command works fine:
kubectl --kubeconfig ./admin.conf get nodes How can I config kubectl to use the cluster, user and authentication from this file as default in one command? I only see separate set-cluster, set-credentials, set-context, use-context etc. I want to get the same output when I simply run:
kubectl get nodes 
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By default, kubectl looks for a file named config in the $HOME/. kube directory. You can specify other kubeconfig files by setting the KUBECONFIG environment variable or by setting the --kubeconfig flag.
A kubeconfig file is a file used to configure access to Kubernetes when used in conjunction with the kubectl commandline tool (or other clients).
When kubectl accesses the cluster it uses a stored root certificate and client certificates to access the server. (These are installed in the ~/. kube directory). Since cluster certificates are typically self-signed, it may take special configuration to get your http client to use root certificate.
Here are the official documentation for how to configure kubectl
http://kubernetes.io/docs/user-guide/kubeconfig-file/
You have a few options, specifically to this question, you can just copy your admin.conf to ~/.kube/config
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The best way I've found was to use an environment variable:
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