Im trying to get the kubectl running on a VM. I followed the steps given here and can go thru with the installation. I copied my local kubernetes config (from /Users/me/.kube/config) to the VM in the .kube directory. However when I run any command such as kubectl get nodes it returns error: google: could not find default credentials. See https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credentials for more information
Is there a way I can run kubectl on a VM ?
To use kubectl to talk to Google Container Engine cluster in a non-Google VM, you can create a user-managed IAM Service Account, and use it to authenticate to your cluster:
# Set these variables for your project
PROJECT_ID=my-project
SA_NAME=my-new-serviceaccount
SA_EMAIL=$SA_NAME@$PROJECT_ID.iam.gserviceaccount.com
KEY_FILE=~/serviceaccount_key.json
# Create a new GCP IAM service account.
gcloud iam service-accounts create $SA_NAME
# Download a json key for that service account.
gcloud iam service-accounts keys create $KEY_FILE --iam-account $SA_EMAIL
# Give that service account the "Container Engine Developer" IAM role for your project.
gcloud projects add-iam-policy-binding $PROJECT_ID --member serviceAccount:$SA_EMAIL --role roles/container.developer
# Configure Application Default Credentials (what kubectl uses) to use that service account.
export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=$KEY_FILEAnd then go ahead and use kubectl as you normally would.