#K9s Plugins: Debug Kubernetes Like a Pro

[bitfoo@mastodon.social]

#K9s Plugins: Debug Kubernetes Like a Pro

Debugging #Kubernetes workloads is painful, recreating volumes, secrets and configmaps by hand every time. I built a #k9s plugin that spins up a debug pod with everything pre-mounted automatically.

One keyboard shortcut and you're in a shell with the full container config.

My blog post: https://blog.bitfoo.de/posts/k9s-plugins/

#DevOps #k8s #Kubernetes #SRE #CloudNative #Linux #OpenSource #Containers #Homelab #PlatformEngineering #Docker

[thomasmey@social.tchncs.de]

@Bitfoo I beg to differ! There is literally "kubectl debug" which adds an ephemeral container to a running pod...

[bitfoo@mastodon.social]

@thomasmey You are right, but starting a debug container does not get the same mounts/secrets/environment variables as the to debug pod. This is why I started using my #k9s plugin. But you are right, it is also possible to use 'kubectl debug' but in a different way.

[quotidianennui@hachyderm.io]

@Bitfoo lots of hashtags but you arent helping discoverability by not having an actual link;)

[bitfoo@mastodon.social]

@QuotidianEnnui oh gosh. Thank you for letting me know. I added the URL.