Kubernetes Tips and Tricks

These snippets are command-line shortcuts. A Kubernetes namespace groups resources and scopes their names; a custom resource definition (CRD) adds a new resource type to the Kubernetes application programming interface (API).

Shortcut to set current context namespace

alias kns='kubectl config set-context --curent --namespace <namespace>'

Decoding secret

kubectl get secrets/db-user-pass --template={{.data.password}} | base64 -d

Describe parameters accept in CRD

kubectl explain <crd-name> --recursive