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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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Connecting to your Kubernetes cluster

To interact with your Kubernetes cluster, you will need a CLI tool called kubectl. If you've already interacted with a Kubernetes cluster, you are most likely familiar with this tool. If you don't have it installed already, you can go to the Kubernetes official website and follow your operating system's installation instructions. You can find all the information needed for the kubectl installation at https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/tools/install-kubectl/.

Once the tool has been installed, you can test it out with the following command:

$ kubectl version 

This command should output the current version of kubectl.

You will also need to configure kubectl to use your existing cluster. If you are using minikube, you can restart your cluster. When using minikube start, it will automatically configure kubectl for you.

For minikube, type the following command:

$ minikube stop && minikube start 

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Joel Lord (joel__lord on Twitter) is passionate about the web and technology in general. He likes to learn new things, but most of all, he wants to share his discoveries. He does so by traveling to various conferences all across the globe. He graduated from college with a degree in computer programming in the last millennium. Apart from a little break to get his BSc in computational astrophysics, he has always worked in the industry. In his daily job, Joel is a developer advocate with MongoDB, where he connects with software engineers to help them make the web better by using best practices around JavaScript. In his free time, he can be found stargazing on a campground somewhere or brewing a fresh batch of beer in his garage.
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