Digital Ocean Token Expiry
Today while doing a deploy my kubectl command were failing with
Error: Failed to fetch credentials for cluster "some-id" Unable to authenticate you
This was because by doctl token had expired
I only use doctl as part of the kubernetes authentication
To fix it I
- visited https://cloud.digitalocean.com/account/api/tokens
- clicked Generate New Token
- filled in a name and set an expiration time
- selected Custom Scopes and Kubernetes
- clicked Generate Token
- copied the resulting token
- replaced my old token in
.config/doctl/config.yaml
Then my kubectl commands worked again
The DO docs lead me initially to doctl auth init did not work - it didn’t prompt me for a new token - maybe this is just for first setup.