Please use kubectx instead.

Simple Plugin to display/change the current kube context in your KUBECONFIG.

Pre-compiled statically linked binaries are available on the releases page. Binary must be placed anywhere in $PATH named kubectl-ctx with execute permissions. For further information, see the offical documentation on plugins here.

Known to work on Windows and Linux. Requires kubectl >= 1.12 (tested with versions >1.12).

For all the examples, assume you have the following contexts.

foo
bar
baz
localhost

Current context is displayed in a different color.

$ kubectl ctx
bar
baz
foo
localhost

Substring matching can be used to display contexts. For example if you are searching a context named ba simply type:

$ kubectl ctx ba
bar
baz

You can switch the context by providing an exact name:

$ kubectl ctx foo
current context set to "foo"

But it's also possible to switch to the localhost context by typing a substring (as long as it is a unique name), for example:

$ kubectl ctx local
current context set to "localhost"