Your handy guide of commonly used kubectl commands to display one or many resources when running commands against clusters. Click to copy to clipboard easily, or download the PDF cheatsheet as a useful reference.

Nodes

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kubectl get no
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kubectl describe no
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kubectl get no -o wide
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kubectl get no -o yaml
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kubectl get no --show-labels
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kubectl get no -l [label_name]

Namespaces

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kubectl get ns
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kubectl describe ns
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kubectl get ns -o yaml

Pods

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kubectl get po
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kubectl describe po
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kubectl get po -o wide
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kubectl get po -o yaml
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kubectl get po --show-labels
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kubectl get po -l [label_name]

Deployments

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kubectl get deploy
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kubectl describe deploy
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kubectl get deploy -o wide
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kubectl get deploy -o yaml
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kubectl get deploy --show-labels
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kubectl get deploy -l [label_name]

DaemonSets

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kubectl get no
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kubectl describe no
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kubectl get no -o wide
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kubectl get no -o yaml
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kubectl get no --show-labels
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kubectl get no -l [label_name]

ReplicaSets

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kubectl get ns
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kubectl describe ns
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kubectl get ns -o yaml

Services

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kubectl get svc
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kubectl describe svc
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kubectl get svc -o wide
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kubectl get svc -o yaml
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kubectl get svc --show-labels
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kubectl get svc -l [label_name]

RBAC

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kubectl get serviceaccount
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kubectl get serviceaccount -o yaml
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kubectl get roles
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kubectl get roles -o yaml
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kubectl get rolebindings
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kubectl get rolebindings -o yaml
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kubectl get clusterroles
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kubectl get clusterroles -o yaml
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kubectl get clusterrolebindings
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kubectl get clusterrolebindings -o yaml
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kubectl get customresource
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kubectl get customresource -o yaml
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kubectl get customresourcedefinition
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kubectl get customresourcedefinition -o y
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kubectl auth reconcile -f my-rbac-rules.yaml

Secrets

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kubectl get secrets
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kubectl get secrets -o yaml

ConfigMaps

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kubectl get cm
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kubectl get cm -o yaml

StorageClass

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kubectl get sc
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kubectl get sc -o yaml

PersistentVolume

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kubectl get pv
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kubectl get pv -o yaml

PersistentVolumeClaim

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ubectl get pvc
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kubectl get pvc -o yaml

Ingress

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kubectl get ingress
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kubectl describe ingress
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kubectl get ingress -o yaml

Applying and Updating Resources

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kubectl apply -f [resource.yaml]
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kubectl delete -f [resource.yaml]

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