Kubectl

Internal

• Kubernetes Operations
• Kubernetes Concepts

Overview

kubectl is the main Kubernetes command line tool, used to send REST API requests with JSON-formatted payloads into the API server.

Configuration

.kube config

Obtaining Information about API Objects

kubectl get

kubectl describe

kubectl get and kubectl describe mask sensitive information such as a secret's content to protect it from being exposed accidentally to an onlooker or from being stored in a terminal log.

Commands

• port-forward
• expose
• version
• config