Kubernetes Cookbook

Chapter 12. Maintenance and Troubleshooting

In this chapter, you will find recipes that deal with both app-level and cluster-level maintenance. We cover various aspects of troubleshooting, from debugging pods and containers, to testing service connectivity, interpreting a resource’s status, and node maintenance. Last but not least, we look at how to deal with etcd, the Kubernetes control plane storage component. This chapter is relevant for both cluster admins and app developers.

12.1 Enabling Autocomplete for kubectl

Problem

It is cumbersome to type full commands and arguments for the kubectl command, so you want an autocomplete function for it.

Solution

Enable autocompletion for kubectl.

For Linux and the bash shell, you can enable kubectl autocompletion in your current shell using the following command:

$ source <(kubectl completion bash)

For other operating systems and shells, please check the documentation.

See Also

• Overview of kubectl

• kubectl Cheat Sheet

12.2 Removing a Pod from a Service

Problem

You have a well-defined service (see Recipe 5.1) backed by several pods. But one of the pods is misbehaving, and you would like to take it out of the list of endpoints to examine it at a later time.

Solution

Relabel the pod using the --overwrite option—this will allow you to change the value of the run label on the pod. By overwriting this label, you can ensure that it will not be selected by the service selector (Recipe 5.1) and will be removed from the list ...