I have KUBECONFIG inside my .kube/ folder still facing this issue.
I have also tried
kubectl config set-context ~/.kube/kubeconfig.yml
kubectl config use-context ~/.kube/kubeconfig.ymlNo luck! Still the same.
By default, kubectl looks for a file named config in the $HOME/. kube directory. So you have to rename your config file or set its location properly.
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Answering my own question
Initially, I had lost a lot of time on this error, but later I found that my kubeconfig is not having the correct context.
I tried the same steps:
kubectl config set-context ~/.kube/kubeconfig1.yml
kubectl config use-context ~/.kube/kubeconfig1.ymlor add a line with kubeconfig to your ~/.bashrc file
export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/<kubeconfig_env>.ymlAlso, if you want to add multiple kubeconfig: Add it like in ~/.bashrc file
export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/kubeconfig_dev.yml:~/.kube/kubeconfig_dev1.yml:~/.kube/kubeconfig_dev2.ymlwith different Kube contexts and it worked well.
Though the error should simplify and return the specific error related to kubecontext.
But after some digging it worked.