How to switch kubectl clusters between gcloud and minikube

Question

I have Kubernetes working well in two different environments, namely in my local environment (MacBook running minikube) and as well as on Google\'s Container Engine (GCE, Kubern

Answer 1

In case you might be looking for a simple way to switch between different contexts maybe this will be of help.

I got inspired by kubectx and kswitch scripts already mentioned, which I can recommend for most use-cases. They are helping with solving the switching task, but are breaking for me on some bigger or less standard configurations of ~/.kube/config. So I created a sys-exec invocation wrapper and a short-hand around kubectl.

If you call k without params you would see an intercepted prompt to switch context.

Switch kubectl to a different context/cluster/namespace.
Found following options to select from:
 >>> context: [1] franz
 >>> context: [2] gke_foo_us-central1-a_live-v1
 >>> context: [3] minikube
 --> new num [?/q]:

Further, k continues to act as a short-hand. The following is equivalent:

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
k get pods -A
k p -A