From the course: Running Kubernetes on AWS (EKS)

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Install kubectl on macOS

Install kubectl on macOS

- [Instructor] The next command line tool you will need to install for this course is Kube Control, which allows you to communicate with a Kubernetes cluster from your computer. Go to the install and set up Kube Control on macOS page in the official Kubernetes documentation. As you scroll down, you'll see there are lots of possible ways to download kubectl on macOS. To keep things consistent, I recommend using Homebrew. There are two possible commands, but let's use the first, brew install kube control, brew install kubectl. This may take a while. Let's run Kube Control in our terminal, to make sure it was installed. If you see this list of commands, it means Kube Control was installed properly. Kube Control is a Kubernetes tool, and you will use it to interact with a cluster, no matter how you create it, on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, minikube, or a cluster running on raspberry pies. Great work. You have installed Kube…

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