kubernetes-python-example

This repo backs a Medium post which outlines how one could run a kubernetes job using the python client library

1 Create ServiceAccount and RBAC

kubectl apply -f ./rbac

2 Fetch credentials

We need to fetch credentials to access Kubernetes cluster

Set the HOST_URL environmental variable to the result (https://x.x.x.x) from running:

kubectl cluster-info | grep 'Kubernetes master' | awk '/http/ {print $NF}'

Set the CACERT environmental variable to the result from running:

kubectl -n default get secrets job-manager-token- xxxx -o jsonpath="{['data']['ca\.crt']}"

Set the TOKEN environmental variable to the result from running:

kubectl get secrets job-manager-token- xxxx -o jsonpath={.data.token} | base64 -d