Currently, the only way to access Kubernetes is by downloading the config file on the dashboard: https://cloud.digitalocean.com/kubernetes/clusters/mycluster , and adding it into ~/.kube/config . By default, this config file lives a few days at most.
Is there a way to either get extended lease on this config, or generate a permanent authorization config for development?
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For anyone else who’s interested. This API is undocumented, but if you have an api token with read access, this will get you the current valid kubeconfig.
curl --request GET \
--url https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/kubernetes/clusters/<cluster-id>/kubeconfig \
--header 'authorization: Bearer <digitalocean-token>'
That’s all you’d need for your CI config.
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I think it’s in the known issues here: https://www.digitalocean.com/docs/kubernetes/overview/
I understand why. I just wish it was easy to generate one restricted to a namespace, or to retrieve the config somehow via an api using an API token. My CI builds fail every week because of this.
I noticed that from time-to time our pipeline fails because of conf becomes invalid? is it documented somewhere?