how to get kubectl configuration from azure aks with python?

Question

I create a k8s deployment script with python, and to get the configuration from kubectl , I use the python command:

from kubernetes import client, config

config.load_kube_config()

to get the azure aks configuration I use the following az commands:

az login
az aks get-credentials --resource-group [resource group name] --name [aks name]

is there any way to get azure aks credential only from python and without the need of the az commands?

thanks!

Answer 1

Yes, this can be done with the Azure Python SDK.

from azure.identity import DefaultAzureCredential
from azure.mgmt.containerservice import ContainerServiceClient

credential = DefaultAzureCredential(exclude_cli_credential=True)
subscription_id = os.environ["AZURE_SUBSCRIPTION_ID"]
container_service_client = ContainerServiceClient(credential, subscription_id)

kubeconfig = container_service_client.managed_clusters.list_cluster_user_credentials("resourcegroup-name", "cluster-name").kubeconfigs[0]

Answer 2

In this case the solution was to use Azure Python SDK to retrieve cluster credentials directly from Azure API bypassing Az Cli.

https://github.com/Azure/azure-sdk-for-python/blob/master/sdk/containerservice/azure-mgmt-containerservice/azure/mgmt/containerservice/v2019_11_01/operations/_managed_clusters_operations.py#L320