kubectl

• cli tool to interact with the k8s cluster.
• controls the kubernetes cluster manager

The format of kubectl command is:- kubectl [action] [resource] [name] [flags]

• action - operation to perform
  • get
  • create
  • apply
  • delete
  • edit
  • describe
• resource - type of k8s object
  • pods
  • nodes
  • svc
  • deployments
  • namespaces
• name - optional
• flags - optional (-n) or (-o)

# view the current config
kubectl config view
 
# check current context
kubectl config current-context
 
# list all contexts
kubectl config get-contexts
 
# set context
kubectl config use-context rancher-desktop
 
# get pods in the default namespace
kubectl get pods
 
# get pods in a specific namespace
kubectl get pods -n <namespace>
 
# get nodes
kubectl get nodes
 
# list all the namespaces
kubectl get namespaces
 
# create and run an image in a pod
kubectl run <podname> --image=<image>

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