Kubernetes up and Running

Setting your kubeconfig

To make it easier on you copy your kube config file to the root of this project and name it kubeconfig.conf. Then just remember to run source scripts/profile to start using the kubectl command. I am just setting the KUBECONFIG envar to the kubeconfig.conf file for the bash session.

Accessing a pod from your laptop

Portforwarding

kubectl port-forward <pod name> <port>:<pod_port>

Basic logging

kubectl logs <pod name>

Stream logs with -f

kubectl logs -f <pod name>

To view logs from the previous pod. Useful if the pod instances keep restarting.

kubectl logs --previous <pod_name>

Running commands in your container with exec

One off commands

kubectl exec <pod name> <cmd>


kubectl exec kuard date

Interactive sessions

kubectl exec -it <pod name> <cmd>

Copying files to and from a running container

kubectl cp <pod name>:<path> <host path>

kubectl cp <host path> <pod name>:<path>

Demo app

https://github.com/kubernetes-up-and-running/kuard

Here is an example of using the cgroups access to limit container resources to 200mb of ram and 1G of swap. If these resources are exceed, which you can test with the kuard application, the container will be terminated.

docker run -d --name kuard -p 8080:8080 --memory 200m --memory-swap 1G docker1.runcible.io:5151/kuard:latest

If we wanted to limit cpu you could use

docker run -d --name kuard -p 8080:8080 --memory 200m --memory-swap 1G --cpu-shares 1024 docker1.runcible.io:5151/kuard:latest