Kubernetes: Using kubectl with 100s of Clusters

If you are working with many clusters, you need to configure multiple kubectl configs. You can do this using kubectl –kubeconfig= or by merging your config files.

If however you want to keep access to your config files separate, you might use a script that is exchanging your .kube/config symbolic link. I organize my clusters with numerically (based on a AWS account number), so I rename each cluster config file to say 0123 and put it in my .kube directory. I then use kubeconf 0123 to activate that config. Here is the kubeconf script (located in /usr/local/bin):

#!/bin/bash

set -e

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
    echo "Usage $0: <config name>"
    exit -1
fi

if [ ! -f ~/.kube/$1 ]; then
    echo "$0: config file ~/.kube/$1 not found"
    exit -2
fi

if [ -L ~/.kube/config ]; then
    rm ~/.kube/config
else
    BACKUP=~/.kube/config.$(date  +%F-%T).backup
    echo "Saving current config file to $BACKUP"
    mv ~/.kube/config $BACKUP
fi

echo "Configuring $1 as config"
ln -s ~/.kube/$1 ~/.kube/config