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Exploring Terraform Outputs

Explore how to use Terraform outputs to obtain essential AKS cluster details such as cluster name and resource group. Learn to automate retrieval of kubeconfig credentials and verify your Kubernetes nodes, enabling efficient cluster management and extension.

Viewing the output file

We’ll retrieve the nodes of the newly created Kubernetes cluster and see what we’ve got. But, before we do that, we need to create a kubeconfig file that will provide kubectl the information on how to access the cluster. We could do that right away with az CLI, but we’ll make it a bit more complicated.

To create kubeconfig, we need to know the name of the cluster and the resource group in which it’s running. We might have that information in our heads, but let’s imagine that’s not the case. What if we ...