How to switch credentials kubectl?

Question

I use the clusters on different AWS accounts and every time I want to connect via kubectl I have to do aws configure . How to make other credentials transferred to kubectl ? I think that I pass the --kubeconfig, I can pass the credentials, but I can't figure out how to do it

Answer 1

you can manage the different clusters with a single kubeconfig as well.

all you need change context for each account cluster with single file

kubectl config  get-contexts

but if you still looking for other approaches then you can create kubeconfig for each account.

export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/aws-account-1
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-clust --region us-east-1 --profile account-1

for second account

export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/aws-account-2
aws eks update-kubeconfig --name my-clust --region us-east-1 --profile account-2

Now if you want to manage the cluster of account1, set kubeconfig to account1.

export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/aws-account-1
kubectl get pods