Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec: executable gke-gcloud-auth-plugin not found

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export USE_GKE_GCLOUD_AUTH_PLUGIN=True
source ~/.bashrc
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gcloud --quiet components install gke-gcloud-auth-plugin
gke-gcloud-auth-plugin --version
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kubectl apply -f kubernetes.yml
// Unable to connect to the server: getting credentials: exec: executable gke-gcloud-auth-plugin not found. It looks like you are trying to use a client-go credential plugin that is not installed.

I already tried everything. I am out of options. I followed every step of the update in the documentation. Nothing seems to work.

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My case may not be identical to yours, but what worked for me was checking the path defined in my kubectl config.

I noticed that for contexts which did allow auth, the path was specified as /opt/homebrew/share/google-cloud-sdk/bin/gke-gcloud-auth-plugin and in the one case where auth was not working (i.e I was getting the error you also received) the path was simply gke-gcloud-auth-plugin.

This can be found in the users section of the config under command.

hth.