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 info:

• -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 with the -o yaml flag. The output is snipped for the course, but notice how it’s divided into two main parts:

• spec

• status

Playground

Use the following terminal to test all the commands from this lesson.