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Connect to a pod

Description

To connect to command line interface of a specific pod you have to use kubectl command line tool. This tool allow us to connect to a service to do a lot of things related to the environment of each deployment in the cluster like test connectivity or libraries compatibility.

Requirements

Kubectl command line tool installed and configured. Use the next guide if you don’t.

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Kubectl command line⁠

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Procedure

Use the next command to discover all pods for an specific namespace

> kubectl -n <namespace> get pods

NAME READY STATUS RESTARTS AGE

apiv3-554c6bc68d-299xg 1/1 Running 0 5h34m

auth-55fc8fb6f5-dv4km 1/1 Running 0 30h

graph-6598d44947-24fvk 1/1 Running 0 3d

moapi-84cfd496d9-8hv6m 1/1 Running 0 29h

notifications-5b6775cd46-vnrd9 1/1 Running 0 2d4h

rtime-6bf5556964-495wv 1/1 Running 0 3d*

connect to a pod using shell with the next command

> kubectl exec -it auth-55fc8fb6f5-dv4km -- /bin/sh

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