kubectl

what is kubectl

reference:

install

[!NOTE] references:

info:

$ uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}'
darwin
$ curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt
v1.26.2
$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/$(uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}')/amd64/kubectl
$ chmod +x ./kubectl
$ sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

# verify
$ kubectl version --client --short
Flag --short has been deprecated, and will be removed in the future. The --short output will become the default.
Client Version: v1.25.3
Kustomize Version: v4.5.

  • kubectl-convert

    [!NOTE] A plugin for Kubernetes command-line tool kubectl, which allows you to convert manifests between different API versions. This can be particularly helpful to migrate manifests to a non-deprecated api version with newer Kubernetes release.

    # intel
$ curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl-convert"
# apple silicon
$ curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/arm64/kubectl-convert"

$ chmod +x ./kubectl-convert
$ sudo mv ./kubectl-convert /usr/local/bin/kubectl-convert
$ sudo chown root: /usr/local/bin/kubectl-convert

  • sha256 check

    $ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/$(uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}')/amd64/kubectl
$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/$(uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}')/amd64/kubectl.sha256
$ echo "$(cat kubectl.sha256)  kubectl" | shasum -a 256 --check

osx

# intel
$ curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/amd64/kubectl"

# apple silicon
$ curl -LO "https://dl.k8s.io/release/$(curl -L -s https://dl.k8s.io/release/stable.txt)/bin/darwin/arm64/kubectl"

# or via brew
$ brew install kubectl

completion

[!NOTE] The Homebrew installation of bash-completion v2 sources all the files in the BASH_COMPLETION_COMPAT_DIR directory, that's why the latter two methods work

$ brew install bash-completion           # Bash 3.2
$ brew install bash-completion@2         # Bash 4.1+
$ kubectl completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/kubectl

linux

$ curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/`curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt`/bin/$(uname | awk '{print tolower($0)}')/amd64/kubectl
$ chmod +x ./kubectl
$ sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

completion

$ echo 'source <(kubectl completion bash)' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ kubectl completion bash > /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d/kubectl
$ echo 'alias k=kubectl' >> ~/.bash_profile
$ echo 'complete -o default -F __start_kubectl k' >> ~/.bash_profile

windows

> choco install kubernetes-cli

> cd %USERPROFILE%
> mkdir .kube
> touch .kube/config

get

reference:

  • output options:

    -o custom-columns=<header>:<jsonpath>[,<header>:<jsonpath>]...

get all

$ kubectl get all -A

get cluster status

$ kubectl get cs
NAME                 STATUS    MESSAGE             ERROR
controller-manager   Healthy   ok
scheduler            Healthy   ok
etcd-1               Healthy   {"health":"true"}
etcd-2               Healthy   {"health":"true"}
etcd-0               Healthy   {"health":"true"}

get po

  • name

    $ kubectl -n devops get po -o custom-columns='NAME:metadata.name'

  • or

    $ kubectl -n devops get deploy jenkins -o custom-columns="NAME:metadata.name, IMAGES:..image"
NAME              IMAGES
jenkins   jenkins/jenkins:2.187

  • get where pods are running

    $ kubectl get pod -o=custom-columns=NAME:.metadata.name,STATUS:.status.phase,NODE:.spec.nodeName \
                  --all-namespaces

  • sort pods by nodeName

    $ kubectl get pods -o wide --sort-by="{.spec.nodeName}"

  • sort by restart count

    $ kubectl get pods --sort-by="{.status.containerStatuses[:1].restartCount}"

  • sort by age

    $ kubectl get replicasets -o wide --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp

    • or

      $ kubectl get pods --sort-by=.status.startTime

    • or

      $ kubectl get pods --field-selector=status.phase=Pending \
                   --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp |
          awk 'match($5,/^[1-5]d/) {print $0}'

get all images

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces \
                   -o jsonpath="{..image}" |
          tr -s '[[:space:]]' '\n' |
          sort |
          uniq -c

list

list image from a single deploy

$ kubectl -n devops get deployment jenkins -o=jsonpath='{.spec.template.spec.containers[:1].image}'
jenkins/jenkins:2.187

  • or

    $ kubectl -n devops get deploy jenkins -o jsonpath="{..image}"
jenkins/jenkins:2.187

list Container images by Pod

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o=jsonpath="{..image}" -l app=nginx

  • or

    $ kubectl -n <namespace> get po \
    -o custom-columns='NAME:metadata.name,IMAGES:spec.containers[*].image'

  • or

    $ kubectl -n <namespace> get po <pod_name> -o jsonpath="{..containerID}"

# or
$ kubectl -n <namespace> get po <pod_name> \
    -o go-template \
    --template="{{ range .status.containerStatuses }}{{ .containerID }}{{end}}"

list all Container images in all namespaces

$ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o jsonpath="{.items[*].spec.containers[*].image}"

  • or

    $ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces -o jsonpath="{..image}" |
  tr -s '[[:space:]]' '\n' |
  sort |
  uniq -c

list Container images filtering by Pod namespace

$ kubectl -n kube-system get pods -o jsonpath="{..image}"

list Container images using a go-template instead of jsonpath

$ kubectl get po --all-namespaces \
           -o go-template \
           --template="{{range .items}}{{range .spec.containers}}{{.image}} {{end}}{{end}}"

  • or

    $ kubectl get deploy \
        -o=jsonpath="{range .items[*]}{'\n'}{.metadata.name}{':\t'}{range .spec.template.spec.containers[*]}{.image}{', '}{end}{end}"

list all quota

$ for _i in $(kubectl get ns --no-headers | awk -F' ' '{print $1}'); do
    echo ------------- ${_i} ------------
    kubectl -n ${_i} describe quota
  done

check api server healthy

$ kubectl get apiservice

  • delete apiservers

    $ kubectl delete apiservice v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io

get apiservers

 $ kubectl get --raw=/apis

get apiresources

  • check available

    $ kubectl api-resources
$ kubectl api-versions

  • check apiservices registered

    $ kubectl get apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io
$ kubectl get apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io -o yaml
    $ kubectl get apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io
NAME                                   SERVICE                      AVAILABLE                 AGE
v1.                                    Local                        True                      4y
v1.apps                                Local                        True                      4y
v1.authentication.k8s.io               Local                        True                      4y
v1.authorization.k8s.io                Local                        True                      4y
v1.autoscaling                         Local                        True                      4y
v1.batch                               Local                        True                      4y
v1.monitoring.coreos.com               Local                        True                      168d
v1.networking.k8s.io                   Local                        True                      4y
v1.rbac.authorization.k8s.io           Local                        True                      4y
v1.storage.k8s.io                      Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.admissionregistration.k8s.io   Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.apiextensions.k8s.io           Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.apps                           Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.authentication.k8s.io          Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.authorization.k8s.io           Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.batch                          Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.certificates.k8s.io            Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.coordination.k8s.io            Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.events.k8s.io                  Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.extensions                     Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io                 kube-system/metrics-server   False (ServiceNotFound)   188d
v1beta1.policy                         Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.rbac.authorization.k8s.io      Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.scheduling.k8s.io              Local                        True                      4y
v1beta1.storage.k8s.io                 Local                        True                      4y
v1beta2.apps                           Local                        True                      4y
v2beta1.autoscaling                    Local                        True                      4y
v2beta2.autoscaling                    Local                        True                      4y0

$ kubectl get apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io -o yaml --export
apiVersion: apiregistration.k8s.io/v1
kind: APIService
metadata:
  name: v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io
spec:
  group: metrics.k8s.io
  groupPriorityMinimum: 100
  insecureSkipTLSVerify: true
  service:
    name: prometheus-adapter
    namespace: monitoring
  version: v1beta1
  versionPriority: 100
status:
  conditions:
  - lastTransitionTime: 2022-08-15T14:10:39Z
    message: all checks passed
    reason: Passed
    status: "True"
    type: Available

  • troubleshooting

    [!NOTE|label:references:]

    $ kubectl api-resources
error: unable to retrieve the complete list of server APIs: metrics.k8s.io/v1beta1: the server is currently unable to handle the request
    $ kubectl get apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io
NAME                                   SERVICE                      AVAILABLE                 AGE
v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io                 kube-system/metrics-server   False (ServiceNotFound)   188d

# remove metrics.k8s.io
$ kubectl delete apiservices.apiregistration.k8s.io v1beta1.metrics.k8s.io

# debug
$ kubectl get secrets $(kubectl -n kube-system get sa metrics-server -o 'jsonpath={.secrets[].name}')
Error from server (NotFound): secrets "metrics-server-token-mr49q" not found

$ kubectl get secrets $(kubectl -n kube-system get sa metrics-server -o 'jsonpath={.secrets[].name}') \
          -o "jsonpath={.data.ca\.crt}" |
          base64 -d |
          openssl x509 -text -noout |
          grep Not
# get token
$ kubectl get secrets $(kubectl -n kube-system get sa metrics-server -o 'jsonpath={.secrets[].name}') \
          -o "jsonpath={.data.token}" |
          base64 -d -w0
# get namespace
$ kubectl get secrets $(kubectl -n kube-system get sa metrics-server -o 'jsonpath={.secrets[].name}') \
          -o "jsonpath={.data.namespace}" |
          base64 -d -w0

check etcd

$ kubectl get --raw=/healthz/etcd
ok

output format

[!NOTE|label:references:]

apply

[!NOTE|label:referenecs]

  • oneline cmd

    $ cat << EOF | kubectl create -f -
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: mysecret
type: Opaque
data:
  password: $(echo "admin" | base64)
  username: $(echo "1f2d1e2e67df" | base64)
EOF

  • edit-last-applied

    # Edit the last-applied-configuration annotations by type/name in YAML
kubectl apply edit-last-applied deployment/nginx

# Edit the last-applied-configuration annotations by file in JSON
kubectl apply edit-last-applied -f deploy.yaml -o json

rollback

[!NOTE|label:references:] -** How do you rollback deployments in Kubernetes?

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