Kubernetes kubectl Commands

kubectl cluster-info - To show information about the Kubernetes cluster. It's a command line tool installed with K8s that allows us to interact with a cluster

kubectl run - Create a pod from the command line. Specifying a name, the image and the port where the container responds. 

kubectl run frontend --image=makader/myapp:frontendmvc-v1 --port 80 --restart=Never

restart indicates that if the pod fails or dies, it will never be recreated. 

kubectl get pods - to see the created pods and their status 

kubectl describe - to analyze the created pod in depth

• The image contains, a status label for the POD and the container.
• The POD states are: the Pending value, during which the containers in it are loaded, the Failed state, if there are errors creating the containers; otherwise the Running state, all containers are created and at least one is starting, restarting, or running.

kubectl describe pod frontendmvc

kubectl describe service myapp-rc-service  

kubectl delete 

kubectl delete pod frontendmvc
kubectl delete service myapp-rc-service

 Create a pod from a configuration file 

kubectl create -f forntendmvc_pod.yml
kubectl create -f forntendmvc_rc.yml 

kubectl proxy - To access the application locally, Enable the Kubernetes proxy with the cmd that starts a proxy server. 

Command to show all Kubernetes secrets "kubectl -n kubernetes-dashboard get secret" 

Command to show the specified secret details "kubectl -n kube-system describe secret kubernetes-dashboard-token-n4bqw"

Command to expose the replication controller 

kubectl expose rc myapp-rc --name=myapp-rc-service --type=NodePort