Kubernetes Cookbook - Second Edition

Setting new clusters

To set a new cluster, we use the command kubectl config set-cluster <CLUSTER_NAME>. The additional flag --server is required to indicate the accessing cluster. Other flags work to define the security level, such as the --insecure-skip-tls-verify flag, which bypasses checking the server's certificate. If you are setting up a trusted server with HTTPS, you will need to use --certificate-authority=$PATH_OF_CERT --embed-certs=true instead. For more information, fire the command with the -h flag for more information. In the following commands, we set up two cluster configurations in our localhost environment:

// in localhost cluster, create a cluster information pointing to itself $ kubectl config set-cluster local-cluster ...