Kubectl Interactive Exec
Summary
Kubectl-iexec is a plugin providing an interactive selector to exec into a running pod. For a search filter, the plugin will return a list of pods and containers that match, then perform a kubectl exec to the selection.
Notes:
Kubectl >= v1.12.0 is required for plugins to work
For more information on kuberctl plugins see documentation
Usage:
$ kubectl iexec --help
Kubectl-iexec is an interactive pod and container selector for `kubectl exec`
Arg[1] will act as a filter, any pods that match will be returned in a list
that the user can select from. Subsequent args make up the array of commands that
should be executed on the pod.
example:
kubectl iexec busybox /bin/sh
example:
kubectl iexec busybox cat /etc/hosts
Usage:
iexec [pod filter] [remote command(s)] [flags]
Flags:
-c, --container string Container to search
-h, --help help for iexec
-l, --log-level string log level (trace|debug|info|warn|error|fatal|panic)
-x, --naked Decolorize output
-n, --namespace string Namespace to search
-v, --vim-mode Vim Mode enabled
Install:
To install the plugin, the binary simply needs to be somewhere on your path in the format kubectl-[plugin_name]. the simplest way to do this is to go get the package:
go get -u github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec
Alternatively you may pull the binary from the releases page on Github:
Select OS
# Linux
OS=LINUX
# Mac
OS=DARWINRun:
# Get latest release
TAG=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec/releases/latest | grep -oP '"tag_name": "\K(.*)(?=")')
# Donwload and extract binary to /usr/local/bin
curl -LO https://github.com/gabeduke/kubectl-iexec/releases/download/${TAG}/kubectl-iexec_${TAG}_${OS:-Linux}_x86_64.tar.gz
mkdir -p /tmp/kubectl-iexec
tar -xzvf kubectl-iexec_${TAG}_${OS}_x86_64.tar.gz -C /tmp/kubectl-iexec
chmod +x /tmp/kubectl-iexec/kubectl-iexec
sudo mv /tmp/kubectl-iexec/kubectl-iexec /usr/local/bin