To use Kops, first of all, your system should have kubectl installed. kubectl is basically a command-line client tool, which is used to communicate to with the master and perform some operations. So, basically here, we need two things:

• Setting up AWS CLI on your machine and configure the access keys and secret keys of that IAM user, which should have the following policy attached:
  • AmazonEC2FullAccess
  • AmazonRoute53FullAccess
  • AmazonS3FullAccess
  • IAMFullAccess
  • AmazonVPCFullAccess
• Installing the kubectl command on your machine (Linux users):

    # curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-    release/release/v1.8.0/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl
    # chmod +x kubectl
    # mv kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl