Silly Kubectl Tricks
In the fall of 2019, we had a vision: to produce the worlds best video and blog series about the little micro-optimizations and fun tricks you can make the Kubernetes CLI do.
This is that series. Silly Kubectl Tricks
Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes
Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows…
Trick #2 – Listing Images
Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions of MySQL are you currently running (and where)? We can answer these questions and more with custom output formats for kubectl!
Trick #3 – What Do I Have Permissions For?
With RBAC, there are times, you’ll wonder precisely which permissions you, or a service account you use, have been granted – that’s when you should reach for kubectl auth can-i
Trick #4 – Getting At Those Kubernetes Logs
Kubernetes has some fascinating ways of making our lives easier, of self-healing in the face of errors, crashes, and more, but sometimes, you just need to tail the log file.

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions

Trick #1 – Explain Yourself, Kubernetes Keeping all that Kubernetes syntax straight can be daunting. Is that property a string or can it be a number? Does that collection get set as a map or a list? Who knows? Kubernetes knows… Trick #2 – Listing Images Do you use Alpine Linux images? Ubuntu? What versions