I have an AKS cluster and it's private. I want to access it from my local and i added necessary commands for kubeconfig. Now, i can list pods with invoke command. But i want to access directly like kubectl get pods command. (i dont want do alias)
az aks command invoke \
--resource-group rg-network-spokes \
--name aks_dev_cluster \
--command "kubectl get pods -A"
If your aks cluster is private, it means its controle plane is not exposed on internet and therefore you can not use kubectl to interact with the API without being into the same vnet as your cluster
You have a few options to do so, such as :
Create a VM in the same VNET as your cluster and install kubectl client
Create a VPN to connect your computer on the aks's network
If you are starting with Azure, I would suggest going with the first option as setting up a VPN can be a bit more tedious.
You can download the kubeconfig file in this path "/home/.kube/config" and now you are good to go.
Or, Use Kubernetes Lens to manage from a UI.
Your AKS cluster is private you must be accessing it via VPN right? You can connect to VPN to access the cluster over private network. You can download the kubeconfig via this command.
Pre-req Azure Cli must be installed.
az aks get-credentials --resource-group my-rg --name my-aks --file my-aks-kubeconfig-ss
It will generate a kubeconfig for you with name my-aks-kubeconfig-ss. You can copy this config and paste inside .kube/ folder or your choice. You can access AKS cluster from Lens via UI mode.
Second option is to use lens.
Install lens. After installation lens press ctrl + shift + A and a windows will open asking for kubeconfig. Copy the content from my-aks-kubeconfig-ss and paste it here. Bingo your cluster is added inside Lens.
I have cloned my app from GitHub into the Azure shell. When I tried to create and deploy the webapp I am facing few errors. First I tried az webapp up -n newappname and I got the below error
Then I created a web app myself in the portal and just tried deploying it from Azure shell using the command az webapp up -n newappname_createdatportal. I got the below error
Any suggestions here will be much appreciated!
It seems it was a bug for old Azure CLI version, run az upgrade --yes and restart your prompt solve the problem for me.
Here are something to notice:
my Azure CLI version: 2.18.0
the command I use:
az upgrade --yes
#restart session and run this for authorizing
az login
az webapp up -n webappnamecreated
Here is the reproduce screenshot:
Here is the successful screenshot:
I tried updating the az command line as other answer suggested but didn't work for me.
Instead of doing az webapp up -n appname, try first creating an appservice plan with application name appname then only after it has been deployed enter the command az webpp up -n appname. This worked for me.
I'm beginning to build out a kubernetes cluster for our applications. We are using Azure for cloud services, so my K8s cluster is built using AKS. The AKs cluster was created using the portal interface for Azure. It has one node, and I am attempting to create a pod with a single container to deploy to the node. Where I am stuck currently is trying to connect to the AKS cluster from Powershell.
The steps I have taken are:
az login (followed by logging in)
az account set --subscription <subscription id>
az aks get-credentials --name <cluster name> --resource-group <resource group name>
kubectl get nodes
After entering the last line, I am left with the error: Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp: lookup : no such host
I've also gone down a few other rabbit holes found on SO and other forums, but quite honestly, I'm looking for a straight forward way to access my cluster before complicating it further.
Edit: So in the end, I deleted the resource I was working with and spun up a new version of AKS, and am now having no trouble connecting. Thanks for the suggestions though!
As of now, the aks run command adds a fourth option to connect to private clusters extending #Darius's three options posted earlier:
Use the AKS Run Command feature.
Below are some copy/paste excerpts of a simple command, and one that requires a file. It is possible to chain multiple commands with &&.
az aks command invoke \
--resource-group myResourceGroup \
--name myAKSCluster \
--command "kubectl get pods -n kube-system"
az aks command invoke \
--resource-group myResourceGroup \
--name myAKSCluster \
--command "kubectl apply -f deployment.yaml -n default" \
--file deployment.yaml
In case you get a (ResourceGroupNotFound) error, try adding the subscription, too
az aks command invoke \
--resource-group myResourceGroup \
--name myAKSCluster \
--subscription <subscription> \
--command "kubectl get pods -n kube-system"
You can also configure the default subscription:
az account set -s <subscription>
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp: lookup : no such host
The error is coming because of private cluster. The Private Cluster option is enabled while creating the AKS cluster. You need to disable this option.
Kubectl is a kubernetes control client. It is an external connectivity provider to connect with our kubernetes cluster. We can't connect with the private cluster externally.
Believe me.... just disable the private cluster options And see your success. Thank you.
Note: We can't disable this option after the cluster creation. you need to delete the cluster and again reform it.
Posting this as Community Wiki for better visibility.
Solution provided by OP:
Delete resource and spun up a new version of AKS.
For details, you can check docs Create a resource group, Create AKS cluster and resource create.
Next try worth to try:
kubectl config use-context <cluster-name>
as it was proposed in similar Github issue.
Gaurav's answer pretty much sums it up. In fact you can refer to the documentation which states that
The API server endpoint has no public IP address. To manage the API
server, you'll need to use a VM that has access to the AKS cluster's
Azure Virtual Network (VNet). There are several options for
establishing network connectivity to the private cluster.
To connect to a private cluster, there are only 3 methods:
Create a VM in the same Azure Virtual Network (VNet) as the AKS cluster.
Use a VM in a separate network and set up Virtual network peering. See the section below for more information on this option.
Use an Express Route or VPN connection.
It is more convenient to use Az module from desktop Powershell for any management operation with Azure portal. Microsoft adds a lot of new cmdlets for managing AKS and Service Fabric clusters.
Please take a look Az.Aks
In your case:
Connect-AzAccount
Get-AzAksNodePool
I was also facing the issue, I'm using a private cluster and I have a machine (bastion) in a different vnet with peering enabled but still, I was not able to connect the cluster (I was able to SSH and telnet to the machine).
Then I added a virtual network link in the private DNS zone for the vnet where the bastion host resides. It worked for me, I'm able to access the cluster.
When using a private cluster, the kubernetes api-endpoint is only accessible on the cluster's VNet. Connecting via VPN unfortunately does not work painlessly since the azure private DNS will not be available via for VPN clients (yet).
However, it is possible to connect kubectl directly to the IP-address of the api-endpoint, but that will require you to ignore certificate errors since we are using the IP directly.
If you edit your .kube/config and change the server address to the IP number. Then call kubectl with something like this
kubectl get all --all-namespaces --insecure-skip-tls-verify
Usually, this is all that is required to connect. Check whether firewall is not blocking any traffic. Also, verify subscription id and other identifiers again and make sure you are using the correct values. If the issue still persists, I recommend you ask azure support to help you out.
I had the same issues when running the kubectl command from jenkins. For me it was the permission issues of ~/.kube/config I gave it access to jenkins as well which solved the issue for me.
You can run kubectl commands on a private AKS cluster using az aks command invoke. Refer to this for more info.
As for why you might want to run private AKS clusters, read this
You can simply append "--admin" to the query as seen below.
az aks get-credentials --name <cluster name> --resource-group <resource group name> --admin
I also hit this after restarting my kubernetes cluster, but it turned out I was just not waiting long enough, after about 10 minutes the "kubectrl" commands started working again.
If you are using AWS with kops then this might help you
mkdir autoscaler
cd autoscaler/
git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/autoscaler.git
create a file called ig-policy.json with the contents
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Action": [
"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingGroups",
"autoscaling:DescribeAutoScalingInstances",
"autoscaling:DescribeLaunchConfigurations",
"autoscaling:SetDesiredCapacity",
"autoscaling:TerminateInstanceInAutoScalingGroup"
],
"Resource": "*"
}
]
}
Then you need to create iam policy
aws iam create-policy --policy-name ig-policy --policy-document file://ig-policy.json
And attach the above create iam policy with the user id to the cluster name
aws iam attach-role-policy --policy-arn arn:aws:iam::005935423478650:policy/ig-policy --role-name nodes.testing.k8s.local
Then update the cluster
kops update cluster testing.k8s.local --yes
Then run
kops rolling-update cluster
Creating private not easy journey, but it has beautiful views so I encourage anyone to get there.
I did it all in terraform, so some names can be little different than they are in portal/azure CLI.
And this is how I did it:
Private DNS zone, with name as privatelink.westeurope.azmk8s.io
VNET where AKS will be placed (let's call it vnet-access)
Virtual network from which you want to access AKS
Private AKS (private_dns_zone_id set to dns zone form first point)
Virtual network link (in private DNS zone, pointing to VNET from point 3)
Peering between networks from points 2 and 3.
This should allow any machine in vnet-access to firstly resolve DNS, and then - to access cluster...
Yet... if you want to get there from your local machine, this is another setup. Fortunately Microsoft have such tutorial here
If you find that something is still not working - put the error in comment and I'll try to adapt my answer to cover this.
For me I had this issue when I was trying to connect a new Linux user to my Elastic Kubernetes Cluster in AWS.
I setup a new user called jenkins-user, then I tried to run the command below to get pods:
kubectl get pods
And then I will run into the error below:
Unable to connect to the server: dial tcp: lookup 23343445ADFEHGROGMFDFMG.sk1.eu-east-2.eks.amazonaws.com on 198.74.83.506:53: no such host
Here's how I solved it:
The issue was because I had not set the context for the Kubernetes cluster in the kube config file of the new linux user (jenkins-user).
All I had to do was either first install the aws-cli for this new user (install it into the home directory of this new user). And then run the command aws configure to configure the necessary credentials. Although, since I already had the aws-cli setup for the other users on the Linux system I simply copied the ~/.aws directory from an already existing user to the jenkins-user home directory using the command:
sudo cp -R /home/existing-user/.aws/ /home/jenkins-user/
Next, I had to create a context for the Kubernetes configuration which will create a new ~/.kube/config file for the jenkins-user using the command below:
aws eks --region my-aws-region update-kubeconfig --name my-cluster-name
Next, I checked the kube config file to confirm that my context has been added using the command:
sudo nano /.kube/config
This time when I ran the command below, it was successful:
kubectl get pods
Resources: Create a kubeconfig for Amazon EKS
I faced the same issue and resolved it by deleting .kube folder which was under the following path C:\Users\<your_username> and then restarting kubernetes cluster.
I have a cluster configured on azure kubernetes . and the services are working fine.
following this article
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/aks/kubernetes-dashboard
i am trying to view dashboard using but get the error as follows
az aks browse --resource-group DemoRG--name aksdemo2
Proxy running on http://127.0.0.1:8001/
Press CTRL+C to close the tunnel...
Error: unknown flag: --address
My cluster does not have RBAC enabled , i am unsure if this is related to network issue or something different.
Eventaully issue was resolved by author of this post by following existing github issue #8642:
I had two copies of kubectl and the one from docker was overriding the
one from azure. Found this by firing "where kubectl" from command
prompt, and deleting the docker copy.
Just run kubectl proxy then go to following URL
http://localhost:8001/api/v1/namespaces/kube-system/services/kubernetes-dashboard/proxy/#!/overview?namespace=default
I used kubectl proxy to access the dashboard
Problem statement
i had created multiple pipelines in my jenkins env which can deploy kubernates objects to multiple cluster. if i execute single job at a time it works well but it might provide unstable output if multiple jobs executed for different environments
Basic steps for deploying to AKS cluster
login to azure
az login --service-principal -u $AZURE_CLIENT_ID -p $AZURE_CLIENT_SECRET -t $AZURE_TENANT_ID
get credentials
az aks get-credentials --resource-group "+resourceGroup+" --name "+clustername+" --overwrite-existing
kubectl apply
kubectl apply -f myk8sfiles.yml
when i execute single pipeline job it works fine but when i try to execute multiple pipeline jobs i assume my az aks get-credentials and kubectl apply commands will provide unstable output.
How can i execute deployment to multiple AKS clusters in parallel?
just save credentials to a specific place on disk for each cluster and use those specific credentials from the kubectl.
reading: https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/access-application-cluster/configure-access-multiple-clusters/