Managing kubectl profiles

Thanks to @shmanubhav:

1. Save your ~/.kube/config
2. Create a new ~/.kube/config, e.g. with aws eks update-kubeconfig --region us-east-1 --name test, replace region and name as needed.
3. mv ~/.kube/config ~/.kube/dev-config
4. export KUBECONFIG=~/.kube/dev-config
5. Verify that it worked: kubectl get nodes
6. Use k9s

Prerequisites

Setup aws-vault, create profile(s), e.g. dev-from-security.

Create the kubeconfig files per account

aws-vault exec dev-from-security -- aws eks update-kubeconfig --region us-east-1 --name test --kubeconfig $HOME/.kube/dev-config

Autopick the right kubeconfig

Add this to your .zshenv

case "$AWS_VAULT" in
	"dev-from-security" )
		export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/dev-config" ;;
	*)
		export KUBECONFIG="$HOME/.kube/config" ;;
esac

Use it

Login into your AWS IAM account:

aws-vault exec --duration=12h dev-from-security

A sub-shell is created with AWS* and KUBECONFIG env variables set.