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Setup kubectl on Ubuntu

Machine environment

Local environment might matter for some shell commands

• AWS EC2 instance
• OS Ubuntu 20.x

Setup steps

All commands mentioned in the guide are executed inside post doing SSH into AWS EC2 ubuntu instance

1. Download and install kubectl

   curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl"
   

2. Validate binary

   curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl.sha256"
   echo "$(<kubectl.sha256) kubectl" | sha256sum --check
   

   • output

     kubectl: OK
     

3. Install kubectl

   sudo install -o root -g root -m 0755 kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl
   

4. Check that it is working fine

   kubectl version --client