Install kubectl

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The Kubernetes command-line tool, kubectl,[54] is used to run commands against Kubernetes clusters. You’ll use kubectl to inspect and manage your service’s cluster resources and view logs. Try to use kubectl for one-off operations. For operations you run again and again, like deploying or upgrading a service, you’ll use the Helm package manager or an operator, which we’ll take a look at later in this chapter.

To install kubectl, run the following:

​ $ curl -LO ​\​
​ https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/​\​
​ v1.18.0/bin/​$(​uname​)​/amd64/kubectl
​ $ chmod +x ./kubectl
​ $ mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

We need a Kubernetes cluster and its API for kubectl to call and do anything. In the next section, we’ll use the Kind tool to run a local Kubernetes cluster in Docker.

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