Login to IKS

The access tab of your Kubernetes Service cluster explains the steps to login to your cluster with kubectl.

Login to IKS from your localhost with the ibmcloud CLI to set the kubectl context,

$ ibmcloud login -a cloud.ibm.com -r us-south -g Default
$ ibmcloud target --cf
$ ibmcloud ks cluster config --cluster abcdefgh1ijklmn2o345
...
OK
The configuration for abcdefgh1ijklmn2o345 was downloaded successfully.

Export environment variables to start using Kubernetes.

export KUBECONFIG=/Users/user1/.bluemix/plugins/container-service/
clusters/abcdefgh1ijklmn2o345/kube-config-<region>-<username>-standard-iks-cluster.yml

$ export KUBECONFIG=/Users/user1/.bluemix/plugins/container-service/
clusters/abcdefgh1ijklmn2o345/kube-config-<region>-<username>-standard-iks-cluster.yml

You are now connected to the remote Kubernetes cluster.