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Does the Kubernetes provider use kubectl, or does it talk to the k8s apiserver directly? If it uses kubectl, does it use the one installed on the host, or one embedded in the provider package?

<https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-kubernetes#prerequisites>

&gt;  Have access to a running Kubernetes cluster
&gt; • If `kubectl` already works for your running cluster, Pulumi respects and uses this configuration.


It uses the configuration, yes, but does it use the exact same `kubectl`? Or does it have a different version embedded?

Aha. From the pulumi-kubernetes FAQ:
&gt; Pulumi uses the official Kubernetes <https://github.com/kubernetes/client-go|client-go> library to interact with the Kubernetes cluster.
<https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/faq/#does-pulumi-work-with-my-kubeconfig-file>

So the installed version of `kubectl`  is irrelevant.