How to connect to the Kubernetes cluster from Terraform

Question

Hi Guys,

I am new to Terraform. I have a Kubernetes cluster in my system. I want to control the Kubernetes cluster using Terraform code. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You need to install the plugins using the terraform init command for the Kubernetes cluster. From the plugins you will get Kubernetes provider. You need to use the provider name in your code as shown below.

provider "kubernetes" {
  config_context = "minikube"
}