Working with kubectl

Kubectl is a command-line interface for managing a Kubernetes cluster and its resources. In this section, you will learn about the most common commands and their use cases.

The syntax for all the commands follows this convention:

$ kubectl <COMMAND> <RESOURCE_TYPE> <RESOURCE_NAME> <OPTIONS>

Commands in angle brackets <> mean the following:

• COMMAND: An action to be executed against one or more resources.
• RESOURCE_TYPE: The type of resource to be acted upon, for example, a pod or service.
• RESOURCE_NAME: The name of the resource(s) to manage.
• OPTIONS: Various flags used to modify the behavior of kubectl commands. They have higher priority than default values and environment variables, thus overriding them.

Getting help

kubectl has hundreds of different subcommands, options, and arguments. Luckily, kubectl has really good help options. The first one is man pages. If you are using macOS or Linux, you can run the man-f kubectl command to check kubectl...