From 44608c3c9d405918a67bdff2315a939ebdd52482 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Eads <deads@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 12:28:50 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] provide easy methods for direct kubeconfig loading from bytes

Kubernetes-commit: 8eec665ecce5e91f858c4f4b92a5e7b674798b2f
---
 tools/clientcmd/client_config.go | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/clientcmd/client_config.go b/tools/clientcmd/client_config.go
index c202e6b2..93e99a94 100644
--- a/tools/clientcmd/client_config.go
+++ b/tools/clientcmd/client_config.go
@@ -100,6 +100,26 @@ func NewInteractiveClientConfig(config clientcmdapi.Config, contextName string,
 	return &DirectClientConfig{config, contextName, overrides, fallbackReader, configAccess, promptedCredentials{}}
 }
 
+// NewClientConfigFromBytes takes your kubeconfig and gives you back a ClientConfig
+func NewClientConfigFromBytes(configBytes []byte) (ClientConfig, error) {
+	config, err := Load(configBytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+
+	return &DirectClientConfig{*config, "", &ConfigOverrides{}, nil, nil, promptedCredentials{}}, nil
+}
+
+// RESTConfigFromKubeConfig is a convenience method to give back a restconfig from your kubeconfig bytes.
+// For programmatic access, this is what you want 80% of the time
+func RESTConfigFromKubeConfig(configBytes []byte) (*restclient.Config, error) {
+	clientConfig, err := NewClientConfigFromBytes(configBytes)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return clientConfig.ClientConfig()
+}
+
 func (config *DirectClientConfig) RawConfig() (clientcmdapi.Config, error) {
 	return config.config, nil
 }