Configuring Access to the Kubernetes Cluster as a Non-root User

Procedure

1. Copy the authentication file of the Kubernetes cluster and modify /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf to be the actual authentication file.

   mkdir -p $HOME/.kube
   sudo cp -i /etc/kubernetes/admin.conf $HOME/.kube/config
   

2. Change the user and user group of the authentication file.

   sudo chown $(id -u):$(id -g) $HOME/.kube/config
   

3. Configure the KUBECONFIG environment variable of the current user. The following uses Ubuntu 20.04 as an example.

   echo "export KUBECONFIG=$HOME/.kube/config" >> ~/.bashrc
   source ~/.bashrc