kubectl 1.37 cheatsheet

kubectl 1.37: Viewing resources

10 common kubectl 1.37 tasks.

List pods

Show pods in the current namespace.

kubectl get pods

Show pods across the whole cluster.

kubectl get pods -A

Add the node, pod IP and other columns.

kubectl get pods -o wide

Keep the list open and print updates.

kubectl get pods -w

Show pods, services, deployments and other workloads in the namespace.

kubectl get all

Print the live definition of a resource.

kubectl get deployment web -o yaml

Show its details and recent events. Start here when a pod won't start.

kubectl describe pod web-7d9f8c6b5-abcde

List events, oldest first.

kubectl get events --sort-by=.metadata.creationTimestamp

Needs metrics-server installed in the cluster.

kubectl top pods

Show every resource type the cluster supports.

kubectl api-resources