Calico

IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS)

Calico is installed by default on IKS. To install the calicoctl client follow the instructions below.

Connect to your Kubernetes cluster to start using the calicoctl. If you need help to setup your free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service (IKS) cluster, go here, or to setup your RedHat OpenShift Kubernetes Service (ROKS), go here.

calicoctl

The following commands will install the calicoctl client in the browser-based terminal environment at CognitiveClass.ai. If you need help setting up the client terminal at CognitiveClass.ai, follow the instructions here.

mkdir calico
wget https://github.com/projectcalico/calicoctl/releases/download/v3.17.1/calicoctl -P  ./calico
chmod +x calico/calicoctl
echo "export PATH=$(pwd)/calico/:$PATH" > $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
calicoctl version

Client Version:    v3.17.1
Git commit:        8871aca3
Unable to retrieve Cluster Version or Type: connection is unauthorized: clusterinformations.crd.projectcalico.org "default" is forbidden: User "system:serviceaccount:sn-labs-remkohdev:remkohdev" cannot get resource "clusterinformations" in API group "crd.projectcalico.org" at the cluster scope

As kubectl Plugin

To install the calicoctl as a plugin to the kubectl client, run the following commands,

mkdir calico
curl -o ./calico/kubectl-calico -L  https://github.com/projectcalico/calicoctl/releases/download/v3.17.1/calicoctl
chmod +x ./calico/kubectl-calico
echo "export PATH=$(pwd)/calico/:$PATH" > $HOME/.bash_profile
source $HOME/.bash_profile
kubectl calico -h