Add Azure AKS clusters

This page explains how to connect to an Azure AKS cluster.

Prerequisites

Before connecting to your AKS cluster, ensure that you have installed and configured:

• Azure account with sufficient subscription and permissions
• kubectl
• Azure CLI

Contact the Azure administrator of your organization for details.

Steps

From the OS terminal

1. Log in to the Azure CLI:

   az login
   

   2. Set the Azure subscription that contains your AKS cluster:

   az account set --subscription <subscription-id>
   

2. Download cluster credentials:

   az aks get-credentials --resource-group <resource-group> --name <cluster-name>
   

   Example of system response:

   Merged "cluster-name" as current context in <path-to-kubeconfig>
   

After completing these steps, the AKS cluster is added to you local kubeconfig file. Then you can open Lens Desktop, and view it in Kubernetes Clusters > Local Kubeconfigs.