I am trying to write an automation script in for deploying some application to azure kubernetes service. So, I need some REST APIs or client libraries that i can use instead of using kubectl native cmds. I can either use C# or Powershell for automation script.
I have found one client library for managing kubernetes cluster with dotnet but it does not seems to support apply/delete cmds. Link
kubectl makes API calls to the Kubernetes API server in the background, so I guess you could use any of the official or community-mantained client libraries to achieve what you describe. You can find the list of libraries here.
The apply command can generate a a bunch of different API calls depending on the object it is applied onto, if it is a new object or if it exists already, etc. I think this is the reason you don't find it available on client libraries
Try running kubectl with any of the commands you would like to get into the automation script. For example
kubectl get pods -v=10
You'll see the underlying API calls that are generated
GET https://172.17.0.45:8443/api/v1/namespaces/default/pods?limit=500 200 OK in 9 milliseconds
Response Headers:
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 3631
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:21:48GMT
...
Maybe a simpler option would be to simply automate via a Powershell script that calls the kubectl native client