How to configure local kubectl to remote access to cluster?
when I ssh into the Kubernetes master it doesn't know how to find files on my local machine nor do I know how to tell it
The prober way to interact with your Kubernetes cluster, is to send your requests to the API-Server. The API Server is a REST API, but it is easiest to use kubectl as your client tool.
When you setup your cluster, you should have a "kubeconfig" - this is configuration that your local kubectl client should use to authenticate to your cluster.