kubectl context like a pro

If your work involves working with multiple Kubernetes clusters, then this might be for you. ☸️ A file that is used to configure access to a cluster is called kubeconfig (usually placed at ~/.kube/config ), but you can easily override the location by using --kubeconfig=<path_to_config> flag or using KUBECONFIG environment variable export KUBECONFIG=<path/to/your_kubeconfig> . A Kubernetes config file describes clusters , users , and contexts . You can use multiple contexts to target different Kubernetes clusters. apiVersion : v1 kind : Config preferences : {} clusters : - cluster : name : <cluster_name> ... users : - name : <user_name> ... contexts : - context : name : <context_name> You can render your current config: kubectl config view . Without further ado, let's take the example of merging two config files(one for each cluster): # create backup for current config cp ~/.kube/config ~/.kube/config.bak # merge the 2 configs KUBECONFIG = ~/.kube/config:/path/to/new/config kubectl conf