Context

You’ve been working with Kubernetes for a while now and no doubt you have lots of clusters and namespaces to deal with now. This might be a good time to introduce Kubernetes KUBECONFIG files and context so you can more easily use all of these different resources. KUBECONFIG and Context - The Theory When you first setup your Kubernetes cluster you created a config file likely stored in your $HOME/.kube directory. This is the KUBECONFIG file and it is used to store information about your connection to the Kubernetes cluster. When you use kubectl to execute commands, it gets the correct communication information from this KUBECONFIG file. This is why you would’ve needed to add this file to your $PATH variable so that it could be used correctly by the kubectl commands. ...