Hi all, How do you correctly import kubeconfig of external kubernetes which isn't created via pulumi into pulumi deployment container? We had tried to put kubeconfig content as environment variable KUBECONFIG, it doesn't work. In the meantime,

pulumi config set --secret kubernetes:kubeconfig   --path ~/.kube/config

, something like this, it won't load the file content, and it's hard to parse the yaml to string and set with pulumi secret. The only worked way is to read it from the local file

pulumi_k8s = kubernetes.Provider("pulumi_k8s", kubeconfig=(lambda path: open(path).read())("kubeconfig"))

, but it is not secure to store kubeconfig file in github. How did you do that? Confusing...

KUBECONFIG

should be set to the path of the config, ie

KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/config

If your

.kube/config

is setup already, then pulumi will use that https://www.pulumi.com/registry/packages/kubernetes/installation-configuration/#setup

I knew what you mean. If we're running pulumi up in local environment, that's work. However, we deploy the codes by CI/CD pipeline, the initial contianer doesn't have ~/.kube/config there, you've pass it into container in some way. That's what block me a long time.

hmm, from the

--help

, looks like you can set a value through stdin. so this might work for you?

cat my/kubeconfig | config set --secret kubernetes:kubeconfig

Brilliant! It works. Thank you for saving my time.