aws cli: update-kubeconfig not working as expected

Question

I am trying to update kubeconfig file using the below mentioned CLI

aws eks update-kubeconfig --name EKS_cluster

It is giving me this error

usage: aws [options] <command> <subcommand> [<subcommand> ...] [parameters]
To see help text, you can run:

  aws help
  aws <command> help
  aws <command> <subcommand> help
aws: error: argument operation: Invalid choice, valid choices are:

create-cluster                           | delete-cluster
describe-cluster                         | list-clusters
help

The was cli version I am using is

aws-cli/1.15.58 Python/3.5.2 Linux/5.3.0-1030-aws botocore/1.10.57

Can someone help me with this?

Answer 1

From the docs of creating a kubeconfig for Amazon EKS here

Ensure that you have version 1.16.156 or later of the AWS CLI installed.

Clearly this is because of older version(1.15.58) of CLI. Upgrading the CLI should solve this issue.

Also now the CLI has got version 2 which you can install from here