“authenticated as: anonymous Groups that you are in” error when checking kubectl version

Question

I am trying to setup the kubectl tool in my machine to remotely manage Kubernetes cluster and also to use Helm. I am trying in Ubuntu 16.04 machine.

I am following the o

Answer 1

You have to manually copy .kube/ directory from you cluster node into your local ~/.kube

If you don't have .kube/ on the master node, copy it from /etc/kubernetes/kube.conf

mkdir $HOME/.kube
scp root@:/etc/kubernetes/kubelet.conf $HOME/.kube/config

You can also define the filepath of kubeconfig by passing in --kubeconfig parameter, i.e.

kubectl version --kubeconfig ~/.kube/config