kubectl: Get location of KubeConfig file in use [closed]

Question

When I'm using kubectl on top of Kubernetes. I can view contents of KUBECONFIG file like this:

$ kubectl config view

Is there any way I can find out which I can find out the location of KUBECONFIG file kubectl is using? I'm looking for something like:

$ kubectl config get-location
/path/to/kube-config/file

Chalet

#68173143 – Bonaventura

Similar question: #75338132 – Lieabed

Answer 1

The kubeconfig directory is default to $HOME/.kube/config. But it can be overwritten by $KUBECONFIG env.

To get your kubeconfig directory, run:

$ [[ ! -z "$KUBECONFIG" ]] && echo "$KUBECONFIG" || echo "$HOME/.kube/config"

What it does? If $KUBECONFIG is set, print the value. Otherwise, print the default value.

Camire

Thanks for your response. Yes, I'm aware of KUBECONFIG environment variable but I was looking if there is an option supported in kubectl to print which kubeconfig file is it loading. – Chalet

How would you know which kubeconfig is in use when your KUBECONFIG environment variable contains multiple files? – Chalet

Hi @RohanKumar while scouring documentation i found this - "If KUBECONFIG contains multiple paths, the first one is used." cloud.google.com/sdk/gcloud/reference/container/clusters/… – Hortatory

#68173143 – Mim