/bin/bash: line 123: kubectl: command not found - kubernetes

Question

This is my first time using GitLab for EKS and I feel so lost. I've been following the docs and so far I
Created a project on GitLab that contains my kubernetes manifest files
Created a config.yaml in that project in the directory .gitlab/agents/stockagent
Here's the config.yaml, my project name is "Stock-Market-API-K8s" and my k8s manifests are in the root directory of that project
ci_access:
projects:
- id: "root/Stock-Market-API-K8s"
In my root directory of my project, I also have a .gitlab-ci.yml file and here's the contents of that
deploy:
image:
name: mpriv32/stock-api:latest
entrypoint: ['']
script:
- kubectl config get-contexts
- kubectl config use-context .gitlab/agents/stockagent
- kubectl get pods
Using the default example from the docs, it seems that the get-contexts script is the one that failed. Here's the full error from my logs
Executing "step_script" stage of the job script
00:01
Using docker image sha256:58ddf823e9d7ee4c0e75779b7e01dab9b11ac0d985d1b2d2fe6c6b95a849573d for mpriv32/stock-api:latest with digest mpriv32/stock-api#sha256:a2e79a2c3a57327f93e36ec55297a606626e4dc8d72e469dd4dc2f3c1f589bac ...
$ kubectl config get-contexts
/bin/bash: line 123: kubectl: command not found
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:00
ERROR: Job failed: exit code 1
Here's my job.yaml file for my kubernetes pod, just in case it plays a factor at all
apiVersion: v1
kind: Pod
metadata:
name: stock-api
labels:
app: stock-api
spec:
containers:
- name: stock-api
image: mpriv32/stock-api:latest
envFrom:
- secretRef:
name: api-credentials
restartPolicy: Never

Answer 1

In your case, I guess the image(mpriv32/stock-api:latest) that you are using doesn't have a dependency kubectl as a global executable, please use an image as an example - bitnami/kubectl which "contains" kubectl
deploy:
image:
name: bitnami/kubectl
the image keyword is the name of the Docker image the Docker executor uses to run CI/CD jobs.
For more information https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/docker/using_docker_images.html
Or you can build your docker image on top of bitnami/kubectl
FROM bitnami/kubectl:1.20.9 as kubectl
FROM ubuntu-or-whatever-image:tag
# Do whatever you need to with the
# ubuntu-or-whatever-image:tag image, then:
COPY --from=kubectl /opt/bitnami/kubectl/bin/kubectl /usr/local/bin/
Or you can go with the approach of building an image from the scratch by
installing there the dependencies that you are using
smth like
FROM ubuntu:18.10
WORKDIR /root
COPY bootstrap.sh ./
RUN apt-get update && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends \
gnupg \
curl \
wget \
git \
apt-transport-https \
ca-certificates \
zsh \
&& rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
ENV SHELL /usr/bin/zsh
# Install kubectl
RUN curl -s https://packages.cloud.google.com/apt/doc/apt-key.gpg | apt-key add - && \
echo "deb https://apt.kubernetes.io/ kubernetes-xenial main" | tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/kubernetes.list && \
apt-get update && apt-get -y install --no-install-recommends kubectl