Connect to an AKS Cluster With Azure CLI and Kubectl

To connect to an Azure AKS cluster, first, we need to login to Azure using the following command:

az login

If you have more than one subscription, set it using the following command:

az account set --subscription subname 

After login to Azure, install the Kubectl command line tools plug-in for Azure CLI using the following line:

az aks install-cli

Finally, we run the following command to authenticate to our AKS cluster. Make sure you fill in the resource group name of your cluster and your cluster name:

az aks get-credentials --resource-group RGNAME --name CLUSTERNAME

You can type kubectl, access the help file, and start managing your AKS cluster.