Settings View Source Connections (K8s.Conn)

A connection (K8s.Conn) is the encapsulation of cluster information and authentication. They can be built using two helper functions (K8s.Conn.from_file/2, K8s.Conn.from_service_account/1) or by programmatically.

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Building Connections

There are a few helper functions for creating K8s.Conns, but they can also be created by using a struct.

Using K8s.Conn.from_file/2:

K8s.Conn.from_file/2 accepts a keyword list as the second argument for selecting a cluster, user, and/or context from your kubeconfig file.

{:ok, conn} = K8s.Conn.from_file("/path/to/kube/config", context: "your-context-name-here")

Using K8s.Conn.from_service_account/1:

If a path isn't provided for the service account, the default path is used /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount.

{:ok, conn} = K8s.Conn.from_service_account()

Optionally the path can be specified:

{:ok, conn} = K8s.Conn.from_service_account("/path/to/service/account/directory")

Creating a K8s.Conn struct programmatically:

For the use case of having an unbound number of connections (a multi-tenant K8s service) connections can be manually created.

{:ok, cert} = K8s.Conn.PKI.cert_from_map(cluster, base_path)
 %K8s.Conn{
    url: "https://ip-address-of-cluster",
    ca_cert: cert,
    auth: %K8s.Conn.Auth{},
    insecure_skip_tls_verify: false,
    discovery_driver: K8s.Discovery.Driver.HTTP,
    discovery_opts: [cache: true]
  }

See authentication and discovery for details on these options.