Enable "Kubectl" auto-completion in the Shell (Linux)

When you’ve done the SDK installation in your Linux workstation. list the components you have installed, then you will see the full list additional components from gcp SDK:

gcloud components list
gcloud components install <COMPONENT_ID>
gcloud components install kubectl

Then follow the instruction from the kubernetes official documentation, check the “bash-completion” and finally issue the command below:

echo "source <(kubectl completion bash)" >> ~/.bashrc

Even you can go directly through your .bashrc (sudo) to add manually, it should look like:

 1# User specific aliases and functions
 2
 3# The next line updates PATH for the Google Cloud SDK.
 4
 5if [ -f '/home/jose/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc' ]; then . '/home/jose/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/path.bash.inc'; fi
 6
 7# The next line enables shell command completion for gcloud.
 8
 9if [ -f '/home/jose/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc' ]; then . '/home/jose/Downloads/google-cloud-sdk/completion.bash.inc'; fi
10source <(kubectl completion bash)

I hope could it be useful; it will save a lot of time typing.