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…

Some aliases I use export KUBECONFIG_PRODUCTION=$HOME/.kube/config.production export KUBECONFIG_DEVELOPMENT=$HOME/.kube/config.development alias kkprod=‘kubectl --kubeconfig $KUBECONFIG_PRODUCTION’ alias kkdev=‘kubectl --kubeconfig $KUBECONFIG_DEVELOPMENT --namespace=development’ and in same wa…

I’m a big fan of using kubectl explain <object> for getting information about k8s objects. This is very helpful when dealing with objects you don’t use often and forget certain properties. For example ⇒ kubectl explain service.spec.type KIND: Service VERSION: v1 FIELD: type <string> DES…

True, this command is very, very useful

I usually source this : source <(kubectl completion bash) alias kk=kubectl complete -o default -F __start_kubectl kk alias grem='grep -i -A 10' echo 'set number' >> ~/.vimrc

How can I make this explain work with a CRD? kubectl explain Foo error: Couldn't find resource for "tools.example.com/v1beta1, Kind=Foo"

A useful command in order to delete all non-running pods: $ kubectl delete po $(kubectl get po --no-headers | grep -v Running | awk '{print $1}')

Hi @scraly , you can delete the non-running pods with the following command without using grep and awk. as kubectl provide this functionality natively kubectl delete $(kubectl get pod --no-headers --field-selector=status.phase!=Running -o name )

This is what I would use for vi configuration: vi ~/.vimrc set ts=2 sw=2 expandtab ruler set backspace=indent,eol,start

How to cut the first column from a file: cat <file-name> | cut -f 1 -d ‘:’ > <res-file>

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macintoshprime February 12, 2019, 4:32pm 55

Looks like support for CRDs is being worked on at the moment, https://github.com/kubernetes/kube-openapi/issues/97

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