The Issue

After moving my life over to a new Macbook and installing the latest AWS CLI tools including “aws-iam-authenticator” tool, I couldn’t run commands against my EKS Clusters. I kept hitting the following issue;

> kubectl get pods

Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec plugin is configured to use API version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1alpha1, plugin returned version client.authentication.k8s.io/v1beta1

The Cause

AWS updated the aws-iam-authenicator component in version 0.5.4 to require v1beta1 your kubeconfig file for the cluster context. You will be using v1alpha1 more than likely, which generates this error.

• [pkg/token]: Update credential API version #386

The Fix

Update your kubeconfig file as necessary, replacing “v1alpha1” for “v1beta1” for any contexts for EKS clusters.

vi ~/.kube/config

# Alernatively you could run something like the below to automate the changes. This will also create a "config.bak" file of the orignal file before the changes

sed -i .bak -e 's/v1alpha1/v1beta1/' ~/.kube/config

Below you can see I used the “sed” command, checked my file using “vi” then run the kubectl command successfully.

Official GitHub Page

• aws-iam-authenticator

Regards

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Dean Lewis