Installing and Configuring the kubectl Tool

Deployment of the Lightbits CSI plugin can be carried out from any computer—including user laptops, Kubernetes cluster nodes, and other servers - with network access to the Kubernetes API server and to the Kubernetes cluster control plane using the standard kubectl tool. If kubectl is not already installed on the machine in question, please install it before proceeding to the next subsection.

For full kubectl installation instructions and configuration, including ways of obtaining the relevant kubeconfig file for the Kubernetes cluster and instructing kubectl to use this kubeconfig file, see the Install and Set Up kubectl section of the Kubernetes documentation.

$ kubectl cluster-info 

Kubernetes master is running at https://1.2.3.4:6443

KubeDNS is running at https://1.2.3.4:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kube-dns:dns/proxy

kubernetes-dashboard is running at https://1.2.3.4:6443/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/https:kubernetes-dashboard:/proxy

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To further debug and diagnose cluster problems, use 'kubectl cluster-info dump'.

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$ kubectl get nodes

NAME      STATUS    ROLES     AGE       VERSION

node1     Ready     master    90d       v1.17.5

node2     Ready     node      90d       v1.17.5

node3     Ready     node      90d       v1.17.5

Verify that kubectl is configured and can communicate with the right Kubernetes cluster by executing the following commands (please note that the details of the output you will see will likely differ):