When using kubectl, a context is a grouping of clusters, user credentials, and namespaces. kubectl uses information stored in these contexts to communicate with any cluster.
When we set up our local cluster using Minikube, it creates a default minikube context for us. We can confirm this by running kubectl config current-context:
$ kubectl config current-contextminikube
kubectl gets its configuration from the file specified by the KUBECONFIG environment variable. This was set in our .profile file to $HOME/.kube/config. If we look inside it, we will see that it is very similar to the config we downloaded from DigitalOcean:
apiVersion: v1clusters:- cluster: certificate-authority: ~/.minikube/ca.crt server: https://10.122.98.148:8443 ...
