Kubernetes Command Cheat Sheet Latest-2023

Kubernetes Terminology

Terms	Explanation
Cluster	It can be thought of as a group of physical or virtual servers where Kubernetes is installed.
Nodes	There are two types of Nodes, Master node is a physical or virtual server that is used to control the Kubernetes cluster.Worker node is the physical or virtual server where workload runs in given container technology.
Pods	The group of containers that shares the same network namespaces.
Labels	These are the key-value pairs defined by the user and associated with Pods.
Master	It controls plane components to provide access points for admins to manage the cluster workloads.
Service	It can be viewed as an abstraction that serves as a proxy for a group of Pods performing a “service”.

2. Kubernetes Commands

Commands	Description
kubectl get node	To list down all worker nodes.
kubectl delete node <node_name>	Delete the given node in cluster.
kubectl top node	Show metrics for a given node.
kubectl describe nodes | grep ALLOCATED -A 5	Describe all the nodes in verbose.
kubectl get pods -o wide | grep <node_name>	List all pods in the current namespace, with more details.
kubectl get no -o wide	List all the nodes with mode details.
kubectl describe no	Describe the given node in verbose.
kubectl annotate node <node_name>	Add an annotation for the given node.
kubectl uncordon node <node_name>	Mark my-node as schedulable.
kubectl label node	Add a label to given node

Commands	Description
kubectl get po	To list the available pods in the default namespace.
kubectl describe pod <pod_name>	To list the detailed description of pod.
kubectl delete pod <pod_name>	To delete a pod with the name.
kubectl create pod <pod_name>	To create a pod with the name.
Kubectl get pod -n <name_space>	To list all the pods in a namespace.
Kubectl create pod <pod_name> -n <name_space>	To create a pod with the name in a namespace.

Commands	Description
kubectl create namespace <namespace_name>	To create a namespace by the given name.
kubectl get namespace	To list the current namespace in a cluster.
kubectl describe namespace <namespace_name>	To display the detailed state of one or more namespaces.
kubectl delete namespace <namespace_name>	To delete a namespace.
kubectl edit namespace <namespace_name>	To edit and update the definition of a namespace.

Commands	Description
kubectl get services	To list one or more services.
kubectl describe services <services_name>	To list the detailed display of services.
kubectl delete services -o wide	To delete all the services.
kubectl delete service < service_name>	To delete a particular service.

Commands	Description
kubectl create deployment <deployment_name>	To create a new deployment.
kubectl get deployment	To list one or more deployments.
kubectl describe deployment <deployment_name>	To list a detailed state of one or more deployments.
kubectl delete deployment<deployment_name>	To delete a deployment.

Command	Description
kubectl get ds	To list out all the daemon sets.
kubectl get ds -all-namespaces	To list out the daemon sets in a namespace.
kubectl describe ds [daemonset_name][namespace_name]	To list out the detailed information for a daemon set inside a namespace.

Commands	Description
kubectl get events	To list down the recent events for all the resources in the system.
kubectl get events –field-selector involvedObject.kind != Pod	To list down all the events except the pod events.
kubectl get events –field-selector type != Normal	To filter out normal events from a list of events.

Commands	Description
kubectl logs <pod_name>	To display the logs for a Pod with the given name.
kubectl logs –since=1h <pod_name>	To display the logs of last 1 hour for the pod with the given name.
kubectl logs –tail-20 <pod_name>	To display the most recent 20 lines of logs.
kubectl logs -c <container_name> <pod_name>	To display the logs for a container in a pod with the given names.
kubectl logs <pod_name> pod.log	To save the logs into a file named as pod.log.

Commands	Description
kubectl get replicasets	To List down the ReplicaSets.
kubectl describe replicasets <replicaset_name>	To list down the detailed state of one or more ReplicaSets.
kubectl scale –replace=[x]	To scale a replica set.

Commands	Description
kubectl get serviceaccounts	To List Service Accounts.
kubectl describe serviceaccounts	To list the detailed state of one or more service accounts.
kubectl replace serviceaccounts	To replace a service account.
kubectl delete serviceaccounts <name>	To delete a service account.

Command	Description
kubectl taint <node_name><taint_name>	This is used to update the taints on one or more nodes.

Command	Description
kubectl label pod <pod_name>	Add or update the label of a pod

Commands	Description
kubectl version	To get the information related to the version.
kubectl cluster-info	To get the information related to the cluster.
kubectl config g view	To get the configuration details.
kubectl describe node <node_name>	To get the information about a node.

Commands	Description
kubectl logs deploy/my-deployment	Dump Pod logs for a Deployment (single-container case).
kubectl logs deploy/my-deployment -c my-contain	dump Pod logs for a Deployment (multi-container case).
kubectl port-forward svc/my-service 5000	To listen on local port 5000 and forward to port 5000 on Service backend.
kubectl port-forward deploy/my-deployment 5000:6000	To listen on local port 5000 and forward to port 6000 on a Pod created by <my-deployment>.
kubectl exec deploy/my-deployment — ls	To run command in first Pod and first container in Deployment (single- or multi-container cases).

Commands	Description
kubectl cp /tmp/foo_dir my-pod:/tmp/bar_dir	Copy /tmp/foo_dir local directory to /tmp/bar_dir in a remote pod in the current namespace.
kubectl cp /tmp/foo my-pod:/tmp/bar -c my-container	Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in a specific container.
kubectl cp /tmp/foo my-namespace/my-pod:/tmp/bar	Copy /tmp/foo local file to /tmp/bar in a remote pod in a specific container.
kubectl cp my-namespace/my-pod:/tmp/foo /tmp/bar	Copy /tmp/foo from a remote pod to /tmp/bar locally.

Reference – Official Document of Kubernetes , Interviewbit.