About kubectl

kubectl is a CLI that can be used to run commands against a Kubernetes cluster. The format of the kubectl command is shown below:

kubectl COMMAND RESOURCE_TYPE RESOURCE_NAME FLAGS

An example of using kubectl to retrieve information about a pod is shown below:

kubectl get pod POD_NAME1 POD_NAME2

kubectl is installed by default on the non-compute node (NCN) image. To learn more about kubectl, refer to https://kubernetes.io/docs