Introspecting Pods

Let’s look at some of the main ways we’ll use kubectl to monitor and inspect Pods.

kubectl get

We’ve already run a kubectl get pods command and seen that it returns a single line of basic info. However, the following flags get us a lot more information:

• -o wide gives a few more columns but is still a single line of output.

• -o yaml gets us everything Kubernetes knows about the object.

The following example shows the output of a kubectl get pods ...