OpenShift Container Platform

Accessing the hosted cluster

You can access hosted clusters on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) by extracting the kubeconfig secret directly from resources by using the oc CLI.

The hosted cluster (hosting) namespace has hosted cluster resources and the access secrets. The hosted control plane namespace is where the hosted control plane runs.

The secret name formats are as follows:

kubeconfig secret: <hosted_cluster_namespace>-<name>-admin-kubeconfig. For example, clusters-hypershift-demo-admin-kubeconfig.
kubeadmin password secret: <hosted_cluster_namespace>-<name>-kubeadmin-password. For example, clusters-hypershift-demo-kubeadmin-password.

The kubeconfig secret has a Base64-encoded kubeconfig field. The kubeadmin password secret is also Base64-encoded; you can extract it and then use the password to log in to the API server or console of the hosted cluster.

Prerequisites

The oc CLI is installed.

Procedure

Extract the admin-kubeconfig secret by entering the following command:

$ oc extract -n <hosted_cluster_namespace> \
  secret/<hosted_cluster_name>-admin-kubeconfig \
  --to=./hostedcluster-secrets --confirm

Example output

hostedcluster-secrets/kubeconfig

View a list of nodes of the hosted cluster to verify your access by entering the following command:
```
$ oc --kubeconfig ./hostedcluster-secrets/kubeconfig get nodes
```