Merging Kubernetes kubectl config files

• To run a kubernetes cluster check whether the path of that cluster should be present in “~/ .kube/config” folder.If not there, we need to add the path of the cluster to that folder.

• To check whether the path is present in “~/ .kube/config” folder.

• If path is absent follow the below commands:

• $ export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config:PATH OF THE CLUSTER $ kubectl config view --flatten >> ~/.kube/config $ echo $KUBECONFIG

• To display the cluster contexts

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• Sometimes when working with a new Kubernetes cluster you will be given a config file to use when authenticating with the cluster. This file should be placed at ~/.kube/config. However you may already have an existing config file at that location and you need to merge them together.

• To merge the config files in “~/ .kube/config” follow the below steps:

• It will create a backup file for existing config file.

consider eks_gowtham_eks = path1

eks_Gowtham_cicd = path2

• Add those paths using following command

• After adding the paths check they had added or not

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• If you want to switch the contexts

• Finally check whether all the pods are running.