Kubernetes/Tools

kubectl

Install

#Latest
curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$(curl -s https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/stable.txt)/bin/linux/amd64/kubectl

#Specific version
$(VER=v1.13.7; ARCH=amd64; curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/$VER/bin/linux/$ARCH/kubectl)
chmod +x ./kubectl; sudo mv ./kubectl /usr/local/bin/kubectl

#Verify, kubectl should not be more than -/+ 1 minor version difference then api-server
kubectl version --short 
Client Version: v1.13.7
Server Version: v1.13.7-gke.8

#Autocompletion
source <(kubectl completion bash); alias k=kubectl; complete -F __start_kubectl k

Help

$ kubectl --help
$ kubectl get --help
$ kubectl explain --help
$ kubectl explain pod.spec.containers #kubectl knows cluster version, so gives you correct schema details

Stern

Log tailing and landscape viewing tool

Install

# Govendor - this module manager is required
export GOPATH=$HOME/go        # path where go modules can be found, used by 'go get -u <url>'
export PATH=$PATH:$GOPATH/bin # path to the additional 'go' binaries
go get -u github.com/kardianos/govendor  # there will be no output

# Stern
mkdir -p $GOPATH/src/github.com/wercker
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/wercker
git clone https://github.com/wercker/stern.git && cd stern
govendor sync # there will be no output, may take 2 min
go install    # no output

#Run
$ stern
Tail multiple pods and containers from Kubernetes

Usage:
  stern pod-query [flags]

Flags:
      --all-namespaces             If present, tail across all namespaces. A specific namespace is ignored even if specified with --namespace.
      --color string               Color output. Can be 'always', 'never', or 'auto' (default "auto")
      --completion string          Outputs stern command-line completion code for the specified shell. Can be 'bash' or 'zsh'
  -c, --container string           Container name when multiple containers in pod (default ".*")
      --container-state string     If present, tail containers with status in running, waiting or terminated. Default to running. (default "running")
      --context string             Kubernetes context to use. Default to current context configured in kubeconfig.
  -e, --exclude strings            Regex of log lines to exclude
  -E, --exclude-container string   Exclude a Container name
  -h, --help                       help for stern
  -i, --include strings            Regex of log lines to include
      --kubeconfig string          Path to kubeconfig file to use
  -n, --namespace string           Kubernetes namespace to use. Default to namespace configured in Kubernetes context
  -o, --output string              Specify predefined template. Currently support: [default, raw, json] (default "default")
  -l, --selector string            Selector (label query) to filter on. If present, default to ".*" for the pod-query.
  -s, --since duration             Return logs newer than a relative duration like 5s, 2m, or 3h. Defaults to 48h.
      --tail int                   The number of lines from the end of the logs to show. Defaults to -1, showing all logs. (default -1)
      --template string            Template to use for log lines, leave empty to use --output flag
  -t, --timestamps                 Print timestamps
  -v, --version                    Print the version and exit

References

• kubectl overview - resources types, Namespaced, kinds K8s docs
• kubetail Bash script that enables you to aggregate (tail/follow) logs from multiple pods into one stream. This is the same as running "kubectl logs -f " but for multiple pods.
• kubectx kubens Kubernetes config switches for context and setting up default namespace
• manages different ver kubectl blog
• kubectl Kubectl Conventions

Cheatsheets

• cheatsheet-kubernetes-A4 by dennyzhang