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Rancher tips & tricks

Access K8s cluster directly

Get kubeconfig from secret

CLUSTERID='c-1234'
kubectl get secret c-$CLUSTERID -n cattle-system -o json | jq -r .data.cluster | base64 -D | jq -r .metadata.state > kubeconfig-direct

Change endpoint to https://localhost:6443

Open SSH tunnel to master node via jump server

ssh -L 6443:$master_ip:6443 $jump_server

Access k8s cluster directly

export KUBECONFIG=$(pwd)/kubeconfig-direct
k get nodes -o wide
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