Hi Guys, As we know that kubectl is a powerfull tool which we use every day. It has broad functionality. Which kubectl tip or tricks, you found out and said wish I knew it before. I will start with my experience wish I would have known earlier Tip: If you want to check out the logs of the prev…

another awesome and helpful command This command analyzes two kubernetes resources and prints the lines that are different. We can list out all of the functionality of it kubectl alpha diff --help

Does anyone alias k=kubectl and have shell autocompletion working? source <(k completion bash | sed s/kubectl/k/g) Works on Linux; I remember someone reporting it doesn’t work on OSX, but that was a long time ago, so that may no longer be true.

I do this all the time and auto-complete works fine with the alias.

Autocompletion for alias commands was supported on v1.10! You can enable it with the following steps: # For bash source /path/to/bash_completion source <(kubectl completion bash) alias k=kubectl complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k # For zsh source <(kubectl completion zsh) alias k=kubectl com…

I made my own zsh/bash function to more easily handle contexts and namespaces. I also run this every time with a kubectl alias to know which environment a certain command is being run against: https://gist.github.com/InAnimaTe/eeeb4b01467d74c522b94f12ed009889 kcc function kcc () { usag…

Some good aliases can be found here too. [image] kubermatic/fubectl Reduces repetitive interactions with kubectl. Contribute to kubermatic/fubectl development by creating an account on GitHub. I use a couple similar to kcns and kex fairly regularly. I also have…

Thanks for all the hardwork - we are loving these tips and tricks on TGIK!

This might be obvious for some, but I was very excited when I learned about kubectl explain. It explains resources and/or the fields of their configuration (e.g. kubectl explain resource.field.field).

I use autohot keys to shorten the commands in kubernetes

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errordeveloper May 18, 2018, 7:41pm 13

I think one big topic would be about using --output='jsonpath=...', vs --output='json' | jq ....

Personally, I find jq much more user-friendly, but jsonpath is so much more portable - just copy the script and no need to make sure you have jq installed… What do people think?

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