To merge existing kubectl config with a new one we can use following script:
cp ~/.kube/config ~/.kube/config.old && \
KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config:/path_to_new_config kubectl config view --flatten > /tmp_config && \
mv /tmp_config ~/.kube/config
/tmp_config
and /path_to_new_config
are just random names which could be changed. The script will create a file ~/.kube/config.old
with old version of kubectl config
KUBECONFIG
is an env variable that could be used to set the config file for kubectl
, kubectl
looks into this env variable and if not found uses the default config from ~/.kube/config
. Elements in KUBECONFIG
should be divided by :
for UNIX based systems where each element is a path to a file with kubectl config