Basic KUBECTL Commands

The following kubectl commands are some common ones that may be helpful.

Type kubectl without any parameters, or with the --help parameter, to get a list of other commands, as well as more detailed usage information.

Note that for many of these commands you typically need to provide the namespace you wish to use, which may be the lumenvox namespace, or some other namespace your installation uses. If you wish to specify the lumenvox namespace, use the following syntax: kubectl <command> -n lumenvox

Get list of pods

Shown here with the optional lumenvox namespace specifier (-n lumenvox). Use a different namespace as needed for your installation.

kubectl get pods -n lumenvox

Get details of each pod

kubectl describe pod <pod-name> -n lumenvox

Get logs for a pod

To look into the actual pod e.g. deployment which is the most important (start here for any troubleshooting on installation)

kubectl logs <pod-name> -c <container-name> -n lumenvox

Show ingress

Used to see what ingress points are configured, hostname configures and ip addresses assigned

kubectl get ingress -n lumenvox

To remove a pod

This is used to delete a pod so that it can be recreated

kubectl delete pod <pod-name> -n lumenvox

To scale a pod

This command can be used to instruct Kubernetes to scale a specific pod if auto scaling is not enabled. In this example, to 2 replicas.

kubectl scale deploy <pod-name> --replicas=2 -n lumenvox

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