To enable management of the Kubernetes cluster the kubectl command is used.
Install
Download the kubectl command.
On Mac
$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl
On Linux
$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
Setup kubectl permissions and move it to the bin/ directory.
$ chmod +x kubectl
$ sudo mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/
Confirm the version of kubectl.
$ kubectl version
Client Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"7", GitVersion:"v1.7.1",.. ", GoVersion:"go1.8.3"
Note
As the Kubernetes API server is not yet deployed the kubectl version command will take a while to timeout before showing you the version.
To further configure kubectl please refer to the great documentation on the site.
Enable Command Completion
Enable Bash completetion for kubectl.
On Mac
If running Bash 3.2 (included with macOS).
$ brew install bash-completion
$ kubectl completion -h
$ source $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion
On Linux
$ source <(kubectl completion bash)
$ echo "source <(kubectl completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc
