Access Kubernetes

When to use

When you need to gain kubectl access to a platform-environments Kubernetes cluster.

Prerequisites

• An authenticated az cli (from the host). This likely means az login --tenant TENANT_ID, where the tenant id is that of "DPL Platform". See Azure Portal > Tenant Properties. The logged in user must have permissions to list cluster credentials.
• docker cli which is authenticated against the GitHub Container Registry. The access token used must have the read:packages scope.

Procedure

1. cd to dpl-platform/infrastructure
2. Launch the dpl shell: dplsh
3. Set the platform envionment, eg. for "dplplat01": export DPLPLAT_ENV=dplplat01
4. Authenticate: task cluster:auth

Your dplsh session should now be authenticated against the cluster.