General Kubernetes Commands Documentation
Creating and Managing Pods
Create an NGINX Pod
Generate POD Manifest YAML file (-o yaml). Don’t create it (—dry-run)
Creating and Managing Deployments
Create a Deployment
Generate Deployment YAML file (-o yaml). Don’t create it (—dry-run)
Generate Deployment YAML file (-o yaml). Don’t create it (—dry-run) and save it to a file.
Create a Deployment from a YAML file
Create a Deployment with 4 replicas directly using command
Scale a Deployment using the kubectl scale command
Creating and Managing Services
Create a Service named redis-service of type ClusterIP to expose pod redis on port 6379
Create a Service named nginx of type NodePort to expose pod nginx’s port 80 on port 30080 on the nodes
Practise Test Commands
Create a Redis Pod with specific labels and no restart
Expose a Deployment named redis-deployment as a ClusterIP service
Expose a Pod named custom-nginx as a NodePort service
Create a new namespace
Edit a Deployment in a specific namespace
Expose a Pod named httpd as a ClusterIP service
Replace a resource defined in a YAML file
Continuously watch Pod status updates
Describe a Node and grep for Taints
Add a Taint to a Node
Remove a Taint from a Node
Add a label to a Node
Metrics Server Commands
Enable the Metrics Server add-on in Minikube
Clone the Metrics Server repository and deploy
Check Node resource usage
Check Pod resource usage
Logs and Debugging
View logs of a specific Pod
View logs of a specific container within a Pod
By using these commands, you can effectively manage your Kubernetes resources, from creating and scaling deployments to exposing services and monitoring resource usage. Each command provides a way to interact with the Kubernetes API, enabling you to automate and streamline your workflows.