Error when trying to access azure aks with kubectl

I went through this link - Error when attempting to access azure aks with kubectl which talks about installing kubectl and kubelogin, but I am still not able to find a workaround.

This is basically what the problem is, after running these commands

az login
az account set --subscription
az aks get-credentials -n $AKS-cluster-name -g $resource-group-name

when I am trying to use kubectl,this is the error I get

error: The azure auth plugin has been removed

I have tried installing kubectl and kubelogin as mentioned in this forum earlier, but I still cannot run kubectl get pods or any other commands.

PS C:\Windows\system32> kubectl get pods
error: The azure auth plugin has been removed.
Please use the https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin kubectl/client-go credential plugin instead.
See https://kubernetes.io/docs/reference/access-authn-authz/authentication/#client-go-credential-plugins for further details
PS C:\Windows\system32>

Solution

Thanks to @silent for guiding in right direction.

As @silent mentioned, you have to use az aks get-credentials -n $AKS-cluster-name -g $resource-group-name --admin to download the Kubernetes configuration file with administrative privileges.

The configuration file will include the credentials for the Kubernetes cluster administrator, which allows to perform administrative tasks on the cluster.
Without --admin flag, the configuration file will only include the credentials for a regular user, which limits the tasks that you can perform on the cluster.

I have tried with az aks get-credentials -n $AKS-cluster-name -g $resource-group-name --admin and az aks get-credentials -n $AKS-cluster-name -g $resource-group-name in my environment. It worked in both cases as shown below:

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Reference:

Refer to MSDOC for more info on '--admin' keyword as it returns the regular user creds of the AKS Cluster.