Explore New AKS Cluster

Learn to interact with your AKS Kubernetes cluster

This guide explains how to use the command line to interact with your newly deployed Kubernetes cluster.

Before you start, make sure you have created a workload cluster, as described in Create a New Cluster.

Explore the New AKS Cluster

Get a kubeconfig file for the workload cluster:
When the workload cluster is created, the cluster lifecycle services generate a kubeconfig file for the workload cluster, and write it to a Secret. The kubeconfig file is scoped to the cluster administrator.
Get the kubeconfig from the Secret, and write it to a file, using this command:
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```
dkp get kubeconfig -c ${CLUSTER_NAME} > ${CLUSTER_NAME}.conf
```

List the Nodes using this command:

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kubectl --kubeconfig=${CLUSTER_NAME}.conf get nodes

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NAME                              STATUS   ROLES   AGE   VERSION
aks-cp6dsz8-41174201-vmss000000   Ready    agent   56m   v1.25.4
aks-cp6dsz8-41174201-vmss000001   Ready    agent   55m   v1.25.4
aks-cp6dsz8-41174201-vmss000002   Ready    agent   56m   v1.25.4
aks-mp6gglj-41174201-vmss000000   Ready    agent   55m   v1.25.4
aks-mp6gglj-41174201-vmss000001   Ready    agent   55m   v1.25.4
aks-mp6gglj-41174201-vmss000002   Ready    agent   55m   v1.25.4
aks-mp6gglj-41174201-vmss000003   Ready    agent   56m   v1.25.4

NOTE: It may take a few minutes for the Status to move to Ready while the Pod network is deployed. The Nodes' Status should change to Ready soon after the calico-node DaemonSet Pods are Ready.

3. List the Pods using this command:

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kubectl --kubeconfig=${CLUSTER_NAME}.conf get --all-namespaces pods

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NAMESPACE                NAME                                            READY   STATUS     RESTARTS   AGE
calico-system            calico-kube-controllers-5dcd4b47b5-tgslm        1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-node-46dj9                               1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-node-crdgc                               1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-node-m7s7x                               1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-node-qfkqc                               1/1     Running    0          3m57s
calico-system            calico-node-sfqfm                               1/1     Running    0          3m57s
calico-system            calico-node-sn67x                               1/1     Running    0          3m53s
calico-system            calico-node-w2pvt                               1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-typha-6f7f59969c-5z4t5                   1/1     Running    0          3m51s
calico-system            calico-typha-6f7f59969c-ddzqb                   1/1     Running    0          3m58s
calico-system            calico-typha-6f7f59969c-rr4lj                   1/1     Running    0          3m51s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-4f4v6                       1/1     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-5xfh2                       1/1     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-9hlk8                       1/1     Running    0          4m8s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-9vsgg                       1/1     Running    0          4m16s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-b9wjj                       1/1     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-kpjtl                       1/1     Running    0          3m53s
kube-system              azure-ip-masq-agent-vr7hd                       1/1     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              cluster-autoscaler-b4789f4bf-qkfk2              0/1     Init:0/1   0          3m28s
kube-system              coredns-845757d86-9jf8b                         1/1     Running    0          5m29s
kube-system              coredns-845757d86-h4xfs                         1/1     Running    0          4m
kube-system              coredns-autoscaler-5f85dc856b-xjb5z             1/1     Running    0          5m23s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-4n4fx                        3/3     Running    0          3m53s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-8pnjj                        3/3     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-sbt6r                        3/3     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-v25wc                        3/3     Running    0          4m16s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-vfbxg                        3/3     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-w5ff5                        3/3     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              csi-azuredisk-node-zzgqx                        3/3     Running    0          4m8s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-2rpcc                        3/3     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-4gqkf                        3/3     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-f6k8m                        3/3     Running    0          4m16s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-k72xq                        3/3     Running    0          4m8s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-vx7r4                        3/3     Running    0          3m53s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-zc8kr                        3/3     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              csi-azurefile-node-zkl6b                        3/3     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              kube-proxy-4fpb6                                1/1     Running    0          3m53s
kube-system              kube-proxy-6qfbf                                1/1     Running    0          4m16s
kube-system              kube-proxy-6wnt2                                1/1     Running    0          4m8s
kube-system              kube-proxy-cspd5                                1/1     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              kube-proxy-nsgq6                                1/1     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              kube-proxy-qz2st                                1/1     Running    0          4m11s
kube-system              kube-proxy-zvh9k                                1/1     Running    0          3m57s
kube-system              metrics-server-6bc97b47f7-ltkkj                 1/1     Running    0          5m28s
kube-system              tunnelfront-77d68f78bf-t78ck                    1/1     Running    0          5m23s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-master-65dc499cd-fxwb5   1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-277xc             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-4dq5k             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-57nb8             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-b4lkl             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-kslst             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-ppjtm             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
node-feature-discovery   node-feature-discovery-worker-x5bgf             1/1     Running    0          3m28s
tigera-operator          tigera-operator-74c4d9cf84-k7css                1/1     Running    0          5m25s

When ready, you can delete the cluster.